Merchant Shipping Act (Cap. 234), article 246

246. (1) The master of every foreign Safety Convention ship shall produce to the officer fro m whom a clearance for the ship is demanded in respect of an international voyage from a port in Malta accepted Safety Convention certificates that are the equivalent of certificates issued by the Minister under the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act that would be required to be in force in respect of the ship if she were a Maltese shi p, and a clearance shall not be granted, and the ship may be detained, until such certificates are so produced. (2) The production of an accepted Safety Convention certificate being th e equivalent of - (a) a qualified certificate; or (b) an exemption certificate, other than a certificate stating that a ship is wholly exempt from the provisions of the Safety Convention relating to radiotelegraphy, radiotelephony and direction-finders, shall not avail for the purposes of either of the last two prec eding articles unless there is also pr oduced the corresponding exempt ion certificate or qualified certi ficate as the case may be. Exemption from safety requirements and Interpretation Power of Minister to exempt from safety requirements.