(1) Where the Minister or such other person as he or she may authorise for the purpose, on receipt of the surveyor's report referred to in section 262, is satisfied that a Saint Lucian ship is in compliance with—
(a) the requirements of the Safety Convention as regards construction, life-saving and fire fighting appliances, radio and direction finders; and
(b) such of the regulations relating to safety of life at sea as are applicable to the ship and to such international voyages as it is to be engaged on, and that it is properly provided with the lights, shapes and means of making signals required by the collision regulations,
the Minister shall, on the application of the owner of the ship, issue the appropriate Safety Certificate, hereinafter referred to as a “Passenger Ship Safety Certificate” and an Inspection Certificate, in respect of that ship.
(2) A Passenger Ship Safety Certificate may together with any other Safety Certificate required under this Act, be contained in one document.