Section 227: Issue of safety certificates to passenger ships, etc

(1)
If the Minister, on receipt of a declaration of survey in respect of a Nigerian passenger ship, is satisfied that the ship:
(a)
complies with the construction rules, rules for life saving appliances, radio rules applicable to the ship and to such international voyages as the ship is to be engaged on; and
(b)
is properly provided with the lights, shapes and means of making fog signals required by the collision rules, the Minister shall, on the application of the owner, issue in respect of the ship a certificate, in this Act referred to as a "general safety certificates", showing that the ship complies with the requirements of the Safety Convention applicable.
(2)
If the voyages on which the ship is to be engaged are short international voyages and the ship complies only with such of those rules as are applicable to the voyages, the certificate (in this Act referred to as a "Short Voyage Safety Certificate") shall show that the ship complied with the requirements of the Safety Convention applicable to it as a ship plying on short international voyages.
(3)
If the Minister, on receipt or a declaration of survey in respect of any passenger ship, is satisfied that the ship is exempt, by virtue of any exercise by the Minister of a power in that behalf conferred on him by this Act or by the rules in question, from any of the requirements of the construction rules, rules for life saving appliances, radio rules applicable to the ship and to such international voyages as the ship is to be engaged on, whether short voyages or otherwise, that the ship complies with rest of these requirements, and is properly provide with lights, shapes and means of making fog signals required by the collision rules, the Minister shall, on the application of the owner, issue in respect of the ship-
(a)
an exemption certificate stating which of the requirements of the Safety Convention applicable to the ship, 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 trades and complying with the other conditions, if any, specified in the certificate; and
(b)
a certificate showing that the ship complies with the rest of the requirements.
(4)
A certificate issued under paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of this section shall in this Act be referred to as a "qualified safety certificate" or a "qualified short voyage safety", as the case may be.