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Formal Consolidation |  Amended S 681/2011
Medical standards
11A.—(1)  The Director may determine the requirements for —
(a)the standards of medical fitness and conditions to be satisfied by a qualified officer, rating or any other seafarer on board a ship, in accordance with the Convention and STCW Code;
(b)the conditions to be complied with for recognition of medical practitioners for assessing the medical fitness of seafarers and for medical certification;
(c)the information to be provided in the medical certificate issued to a seafarer and its validity; and
(d)recognition of medical certificates issued to a seafarer by a foreign medical practitioner issued in accordance with the requirements of the Convention.
(2)  The Director may publish the requirements determined under paragraph (1) in the manner he thinks fit.
(3)  The Director may, in his discretion and subject to such terms as he thinks fit to impose, exempt any person from any requirement determined by him under paragraph (1) and may, upon giving reasonable notice to that person, at any time withdraw the exemption.
[S 681/2011 wef 01/01/2012]
Informal Consolidation | Amended S 183/2014
11A.  [Deleted by S 183/2014 wef 01/04/2014]