284. Cargo ship exemption and Qualified Safety Construction 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 applicable to the ship and to such voyages as the ship is to be engaged on, and that the ship complies with the remainder of these requirements, the Minister may, on the application of the owner, issue in respect of the ship—
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(a) where the ship is of 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 trades 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 cargo ship construction and survey regulations from which the ship is not exempt and to the voyages on which the ship is to be engaged; and
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any certificate issued under paragraph (a)(ii) or (b), is in this Act referred to as a “Qualified Cargo Ship Safety Construction Certificate”.