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NAVIGATION ACT 2012 (NO. 128, 2012) - SECT 319

Foreign countries may request AMSA to issue certificates

             (1)  AMSA or another issuing body may, on request of the government of a foreign country:

                     (a)  issue, or authorise the issue of, a certificate to a vessel registered in the foreign country; or

                     (b)  endorse, or authorise the endorsement of, a certificate of a vessel registered in the foreign country;

if AMSA or the other issuing body could do so if the vessel were registered in under the Shipping Registration Act 1981 .

             (2)  A certificate issued or endorsed under this section:

                     (a)  must contain a statement to the effect that it has been issued or endorsed at the request of the government of the country in which the vessel is registered; and

                     (b)  has effect, for the purposes of this Act, as if it had been issued or endorsed by the government that requested its issue or its endorsement.



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