6 Alternative Method for Demonstrating Competency
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6 Alternative Method for Demonstrating Competency

  6 SOLAS Contracting Governments may allow shipboard personnel to demonstrate competence to undertake the tasks, duties and responsibilities listed in column 1 of table 1 or 2, as the case may be, by:

  • .1 approved seagoing service as shipboard personnel without or with designated security duties, as the case may be, for a period of at least six months in total during the preceding three years provided the period of six months has been accrued after 1 July 2004; or

  • .2 having performed security functions after 1 July 2004 considered to be equivalent to the seagoing service required in paragraph 6.1; or

  • .3 passing an approved test; or

  • .4 successfully completing approved training.


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