276. Cargo ship exemption and Qualified Safety Equipment Certificates
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 cargo ship, is satisfied that the ship is eligible under this Act for exemption from any of the requirements applicable to that ship under this Act, or from any of requirements of the Safety Convention or regulations made under this Act in relation to such voyages as the ship is to be engaged on, and that the ship complies with the remainder of those requirements and is properly provided with the lights, shapes and means of making sound signals required by the collision regulations, the Minister may, 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—
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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 trade and complying with any other conditions, specified in the certificate, and
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(ii) a certificate showing that the ship complies with those requirements of the Safety Convention from which it is not exempt;
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(b) in any other case, a certificate showing that the ship complies with such of the requirements of the Safety Convention from which the ship is not exempt, and the voyages on which the ship is to be engaged,
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and any certificate issued under paragraph (a)(ii) or (b) is in this Act referred to as a “Qualified Safety Equipment Certificate”.