Merchant Shipping Act (Cap. 234), article 226

226. (1) A passenger ship certificate shall remain in force for a period not exceeding one year fro m its date of issue, and all o ther certificates referred to in the foregoing provisions of this ar ticle shall remain in force for a period which shall not exceed five years. (2) An exemption certificate, oth er than a certificate stating that a ship is wholly exempt from the requirements relating to radiotelegraphy, radiotelephony and direction-finders, shall re main in force for the same period as the corresponding qualified certificate. (3) The Minister may grant an extension of any certificate granted under the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act in respect of any Maltese ship for a period not exceeding three mo nths from the date when a certificate would, but for the extension, have expired. (4) Without prejudice to the powers conferred by sub-article (5), where a certificate under article 219 is in force in respe ct of a ship and the certificate was issued for a shorter period than i s allowed under this article, the Minister may if satisfied on re ceipt of declarations of survey in re spect of the ship that it is pro per to do so, grant an extension of the certificate for a period not exce eding one year and not exceeding, toget her with the period for which it was issued and any period by which it has previously been extended under this sub-article, the period for which it could have been issued under this article. (5) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this article no certificate therein referred to shall remain in force after not ice is given by the Minister to the owner or master of the ship in res pect of which it has been issued that the Minister has cancelled the certificate. Certificates admissible in evidence.