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(c) If a ship at the time when its certificate expires is not in a port of 

 the country in which it is registered, the certificate may be extended by the 

 Administration, but such extension shall be granted only for the purpose of 

 allowing the ship to complete its voyage to the country in which it is registered 

 or is to be surveyed, and then only in cases where it appears proper and 

 reasonable so to do. 



(d) No certificate shall be thus extended for a longer period than five 

 months, and a ship to which such extension is granted shall not, on its 

 arrival in the country in which it is registered or the port in which it is to be 

 surveyed, be entitled by virtue of such extension to leave that port or country 

 without having obtained a new certificate. 



(e) A certificate which has not been extended under the foregoing 

 provisions of this Regulation may be extended by the Administration for a 

 period of grace of up to one month from the date of expiry stated on it. 



Regulation 15 



Form of Certificates 



(a) All certificates shall be drawn up in the official language or languages 

 of the country by which they are issued. 



(b) The form of the certificates shall be that of the models given in the 

 Appendix to the present Regulations. The arrangement of the printed part 

 of the model certificates shall be exactly reproduced in the certificates issued, 

 or in certified copies thereof, and the particulars inserted in the certificates 

 issued, or in certified copies thereof, shall be in Roman characters and 

 Arabic figures. 



Regulation 16 



Posting up of Certificates 



All certificates or certified copies thereof issued under the present 

 Regulations shall be posted up in a prominent and accessible place in the 

 ship. 



Regulation 17 



Acceptance of Certificates 



Certificates issued under the authority of a Contracting Goverrmaent shall 

 be accepted by the other Contracting Governments for all purposes covered 

 by the present Convention. They shall be regarded by the other Contracting 

 Governments as having the same force as certificates issued by them. 



Regulation 18 



Qualification of Certificates 



(a) If in the course of a particular voyage a ship has on board a number 

 of persons less than the total number stated in the Passenger Ship Safety 

 Certificate and is in consequence, in acordance with the provisions of the 

 present Regulations, free to carry a smaller number of lifeboats and other 



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