6(1)A certificate of competency as—
(a)master, first mate or second mate of a foreign-going ship within the meaning of the M1Merchant Shipping Act 1894; or
(b)first-class or second-class engineer; or
(c)first-class or second-class motor engineer,
granted under the Merchant Shipping (Certificates of Competency) Act 1925 (an enactment of the legislature of the Republic) and any equivalent certificate of competency granted under the Merchant Shipping Act 1951 (an enactment of the said legislature), being a certificate granted by the appropriate authority on or after the first day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, but before the commencement of this Act, shall be of the same force as if it had been granted in the United Kingdom under the said Act of 1894.
(2)The provisions of the said Act of 1894 which relate to certificates of competency granted under that Act (except those relating to certificates for a home-trade passenger ship, and section one hundred and one) shall apply to any such certificate as is described in the foregoing paragraph, and to any certificate certified by the Registrar-General of Shipping and Seamen to have been issued by the proper authority after the commencement of this Act in place of such a certificate.
(3)In this paragraph “the proper authority” means the authority for the time being empowered by the legislature of the Republic to grant certificates of competency under the enactments of that legislature relating to merchant shipping.
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