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vessel belongs, or by any other person duly authorized by that State. In either case 

 the State to which the vessel belongs assumes full responsibility for the certificate. 



Article 58. 



The Safety Certificate shall be drawn up in the official language or languages of the 

 State by which it is issued. 



The form of the certificate shall be that of the model given in Article LII of the Regu- 

 lations annexed hereto. The arrangement of the printed part of this standard certificate 

 shall be exactly reproduced, and the particulars inserted by hand shall be inserted in Roman 

 characters and Arabic figures. 



The High Contracting parties undertake to communicate one to another a sufficient num- 

 ber of specimens of their Safety Certificates for the information of their officers. This 

 exchange shall be made, so far as possible, before the 1st April, 1915. 



Article 59. 



The Safety Certificate shall not be issued for a period of more than 12 months. 



If the vessel is not in a port of the State to which it belongs at the time when the 

 period of the validity of the Safety Certificate expires a duly authorized officer of this State 

 may extend this period; but such an extension shall be granted only for the purpose of al- 

 lowing the vessel to complete its return voyage to its own country, and then only in cases in 

 which it appears proper and reasonable so to do. 



The extension cannot have effect for more than five months, and the vessel shall not 

 thereby be entitled to leave its own country again without having obtained a new certificate. 



Article 60. 



The Safety Certificate issued under the authority of a Contracting State shall be 

 accepted by the Governments of the other Contracting States for all purposes covered by 

 this Convention. It shall be regarded by the Governments of the other Contracting States 

 as having the same force as the certificates issued by them to their own vessels. 



Article 61. 



Every vessel holding a Safety Certificate issued by the officers of the Contracting State 

 to which it belongs, or by persons duly authorized by that State, is subject in the ports 

 of the other Contracting States to control by officers duly authorized by their Govern- 

 ments in so far as this control is directed towards verifying that there is on board a valid 

 Safety Certificate, and, if necessary, that the conditions of the vessel's seaworthiness cor- 

 respond substantially with the particulars of that certificate; that is to say, so that the 

 vessel can proceed to sea without danger to the passengers and the crew. 



Article 62. 



The privileges of the Convention may not be claimed in favor of any vessel unless it 

 holds a proper valid Safety Certificate. 



