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(10) The Commandant of the Coast Guard or any officer of the 

 Coast Guard authorized by the Commandant of the Coast Guard 

 may, upon application therefor, remit or mitigate any fine or pen- 

 ahy incuiTed under this section or any regulation thereimder. 



(11) No provision of the Officers' Competency Certificates Con- 

 \ention, 1936, nor of this section, shall apply to any vessel, however 

 propelled, navigating on the Great Lakes. 



(12) Wliere used in this section — 



(a) the term "high seas" means all waters outside the line divid- 

 ing the inland waters from the high seas, as defined in section 2 of 

 the Act of Febmary' 19, 1895 (33 U.S.C. 151) ; 



(b) the term "unrigged vessel" means any vessel that is not self- 

 propelled. 



(13) Nothing contained in the Officers' Competency Certificates 

 Convention, 1936, nor in this section, shall be deemed to extend any 

 provision of section 673 of this title, or to alter, modify, or repeal 

 any statute of the United States in effect on the effective date of this 

 section, except as hereinbefore pro\dded. 



(14) This section [act] became effective on October 29, 1939. 



Exception of certain vessels from Officers' Competency Certifi- 

 cates Convention 



46 U.S.C. 241 



Pursuant to the authority granted in the second clause of Article 

 One of the Officers' Competency Certificates Convention, 1936, rati- 

 fied by the President of the United States on September 1, 1938, by 

 and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States, 

 given June 13, 1938 (being International Labor Conference Treaty, 

 Draft Convention, Numbered 53, adopted by the International Labor 

 Conference at Geneva in 1936), vessels of the United States of less 

 than two hundred tons gross registered tonnage are hereby exempted 

 from the provisions of such convention : Provided^ however^ That 

 neither the ratification of the said convention by the President of 

 the United States, nor the advice and consent of the United States 

 Senate given thereto, nor any provision of the said convention as 

 ratified, nor any provision of this Act shall be deemed to alter, amend, 

 or repeal any statute of tlie United States existing at the time of said 

 ratification, or thereafter enacted, with regard to any such vessel of 

 less than two hundred tons gross registered tonnage. 



Officers* Competency Certificates Convention, 1936 



PROVISIONS OF DRAFT CONVENTION NO. 53 



ARTICLE 1 



1. This Convention applies to all vessels registered in a territory 

 for which this Convention is in force and engaged in maritime 

 navigation with the exception of — 



(a) ships of war; 



(b) Government vessels, or vessels in the service of a public 

 authority, which are not engaged in trade ; 



