Commonwealth Numbered Acts Commonwealth Numbered Acts(1) AMSA may request the government of a foreign country to issue or to authorise the issue of, or to endorse or to authorise the endorsement of, in respect of a vessel registered in Australia, a certificate that:
(a) the government of that country may issue or authorise the issue of, or endorse or authorise the endorsement of, in respect of a vessel registered in that country; and
(b) corresponds, or substantially corresponds, with a certificate that AMSA may issue under this Act in respect of that vessel.
(2) A certificate issued or endorsed following such a request, and containing a statement that it has been so issued or endorsed, has effect, for the purposes of this Act, as if it were a certificate of the kind to which it corresponds issued or endorsed under this Act.