(1) Where the Minister, or such person as the Minister may authorise for the purpose is satisfied on receipt of the surveyor's report referred to in section 262, in respect of a Saint Lucian cargo ship to which section 282 applies, that the ship complies with the cargo ship construction and survey regulations applicable to the ship in relation to such voyage as the ship is to be engaged on, the Minister shall, on the application of the owner, issue in respect of the ship—
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(a) where the ship is not less than 500 gross tons and is to be engaged on international voyages, a certificate in the form prescribed by the Convention; and
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(b) in any other case, a certificate showing that the ship complies with the said regulations,