270. Exemption and Qualified Certificates for passenger ships
Where the Minister or such other person as the Minister may authorise for the purpose, on receipt of the surveyor's report referred to in section 262 in respect of any passenger ship, is satisfied that—
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(a) the ship is eligible for exemption, under this Act, from any of the requirements of the regulations or of the Safety Convention applicable to the ship and to such international voyages on which the ship is to be engaged;
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(b) the ship complies with the remainder of those requirements and that the ship is properly provided with the lights, shapes and means of making sound signals required by the collision regulations,
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the Minister shall, on the application of the owner, issue in respect of the ship—
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(i) an exemption certificate stating from which of the requirements of the Safety Convention the ship is exempt, and that the exemption is conditional on the ship plying only on the voyages and being engaged only in the trades and complying with the other conditions, if any, specified in the certificate, and
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(ii) a certificate, hereinafter referred to as “a Qualified Safety Certificate”, or a “Qualified Short Voyage Certificate”, as the case may be, showing that the ship complies with those requirements from which it is not exempt.