Merchant Shipping Act, 1951 (Act No. 57 of 1951)

Chapter VI : Special Shipping Enquiries and Courts of Enquiry and Courts of Survey

290. Powers of Minister in respect of cancelled or suspended certificates
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The Minister may, if he thinks the justice of the case requires it—

(a)set aside the suspension of a certificate suspended by a court of marine enquiry or a maritime court, or shorten or lengthen the period of suspension of, or cancel, a certificate so suspended; or
(b)grant a new certificate of the same grade or any lower grade in the place of a certificate cancelled by any such court or grant a new certificate of any lower grade in the place of a certificate suspended by any such court, if the certificate was issued in the Republic, or return any certificate so cancelled or suspended, if it was issued elsewhere than in the Republic; or

[Section 290(b) substituted by section 28(a) of Act No. 42 of 1969]

(c)set aside the prohibition of employment by a court of marine enquiry or a maritime court or shorten or lengthen the period of the prohibition, or set aside the fine imposed or the reprimand by any such court.

[Section 290(c) substituted by section 25 of Act No. 18 of 1992]