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(1) Where the Director-General or a person authorised by the Director-General for the purpose is satisfied on receipt of the surveyor's report in respect of a cargo ship that the ship

(a) is eligible for exemption under this Act from any of the requirements of

(i) the Regulations relating to safety of life at sea, or

(ii) the Safety Convention,

(b) applicable to the ship as regards radio installations and direction finders and to the

(c) voyages to be engaged on, complies with the remainder of the requirements, and is properly provided with the lights, shapes and means of making sound signals required by the Collision Regulations, the Director-General or the authorised person shall on the application of the owner issue in respect of the ship

(d) where it is not less than three hundred gross tons and is to be engaged on international voyages

(i) an exemption certificate stating which of the requirements of the Safety Convention 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 trade and complying with the other conditions, specified in the certificate, and

(ii) a certificate showing that the ship complies with the requirements from which it is not exempt; and

(e) in any other case, a certificate showing

(i) that the ship complies with the requirements of the Safety Convention from which it is not exempt, and

(ii) the voyages on which it is to be engaged.

(2) A certificate issued under subsection (1) is in this Act referred to as a "Qualified Radio Certificate".