1.7 Certification
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1.7 Certification

  1.7.1 A certificate may be issued after survey in accordance with 1.6 either by the Administration or by any person or organization duly authorized by it. In every case the Administration assumes full responsibility for the certificate.

  1.7.2 The certificate should be drawn up in the official language of the issuing country in a form corresponding to the model given in the annex to the Code. If the language used is neither English nor French, the text should include a translation into one of these languages.

  1.7.3 The duration and validity of the certificate should be governed by the respective provisions for cargo ships in SOLAS.

  1.7.4 If a certificate is issued for a special purpose ship of less than 500 gross tonnage, this certificate should indicate to what extent relaxations in accordance with 1.2 were accepted.

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