Chapter:	369	Title:	MERCHANT SHIPPING (SAFETY) ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:	L.N. 27 of 2000
Section:	18	Heading:	Issue for cargo ships of radio certificates and exemption certificates	Version Date:	28/01/2000

(1) If the Director, on receipt of a declaration of survey in respect of a ship registered in Hong Kong not being a passenger ship, is satisfied that the ship complies with the radio regulations and the navigational equipment regulations applicable to the ship and to such international voyages as it is to be engaged on, he shall, on the application of the owner, agent or master, issue in respect of the ship a cargo ship safety radio certificate showing that the ship complies with such of the requirements of the Convention relating to radio installations and shipborne navigational equipment as are applicable.
(2) If the Director, on receipt of a declaration of survey in respect of a ship to which subsection (1) applies, is satisfied-

(a) that the ship is exempt, by virtue of any exercise by him of a power in that behalf conferred on him by this Ordinance or conferred on him by the regulations in question, from any of the requirements of the radio regulations or the navigational equipment regulations applicable to the ship and to such international voyages as it is to be engaged on; and
(b) that it complies with the rest of the requirements of those regulations,

(i) an exemption certificate stating which of the requirements of the Convention relating to radio installations and shipborne navigational equipment, being requirements applicable as aforesaid, the ship is exempt from, and that the exemption is conditional on the ship's plying only on the voyages and complying with the other conditions (if any) specified in the certificate; and
(ii) a qualified cargo ship safety radio certificate showing that the ship complies with the rest of those requirements.