275. Cargo ship Safety Equipment Certificate
Where the Minister, or such person as the Minister may authorise for the purpose, on receipt of the surveyor's report referred to in section 262 in respect of a Saint Lucian cargo ship, is satisfied that the ship complies with the requirements of the Safety Convention as regards life-saving and fire-fighting appliances and other safety provisions and with such of the regulations relating to safety of life at sea as are applicable to the ship in regard to such voyages as the ship is to be engaged on, and, that the ship is properly provided with the lights, shapes and means of making sound signals required by the collision regulations, the minister shall, on the application of the owner, issue in respect of the ship—
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(a) where it is not less than 500 gross tons and is to be engaged on international voyages, a certificate in the form prescribed by the Safety Convention;
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(b) in any other case, a certificate showing that the ship complies with the said requirements,
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and any such certificate is in this Act referred to as a “Safety Equipment Certificate”.