279. Cargo ship exemption and Qualified Radio 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 for exemption under this Act, from any of the requirements of the Regulations made under this Act or from any of the requirements of the Safety Convention applicable to the ship as regards radio-telegraphy, radio-telephony and direction finders and in relation to such voyages as the ship is to be engaged on, and that the ship complies with the remainder of these requirements and 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 300 gross tons and is to be engaged on international voyages—
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(i) an exemption certificate stating which of the requirements of the Safety Convention the ship is exempt from and that the exemption is conditional on the ship plying only on the voyages and being engaged only in the trade and complying with the other conditions, specified in the certificate, and
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(ii) a certificate showing that the ship complies with those requirements from which the ship 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 paragraph (b) is in this Act referred to as a “Qualified Radio Certificate”.