Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00094:section:319
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00094
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 319
Character Range: 303235–304092

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.