Section 346: Cargo ship safety construction certificate

346. Cargo ship safety construction certificate.—(1) If the Federal Government, or a person authorised by it in this behalf, is satisfied on receipt of a declaration of survey in respect of a Pakistani cargo ship to which section 329 applies that the ship complies with all the provisions of the rules made under section 330 and applicable to such ship and to such voyages as she is to be engaged on, the Federal Government or such person shall, on the application, of the owner, cause to be issued in respect of the ship,— (a) if the ship is of a gross tonnage of not less than five hundred and is intended to ply on voyages from or to any port or place in Pakistan to or from any port or place outside Pakistan, a cargo ship safety construction certificate showing that she complies with the said rules; or (b) if there is in force in respect of the ship, an exemption certificate granted under section 347 and the ship complies with the aforesaid requirement other than those from which the ship is exempt under that certificate, the cargo ship safety construction certificate may be endorsed. (2) The cargo ship safety construction certificate shall be in the prescribed form and shall state that the ship complies with such of the requirements of the Safety Convention as to hull, equipments and machinery as are applicable to the ship.

Effective date: 2001-01-01

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