SAMI Briefing Maritime Labour Convention FAQs and Text March 2013

Maritime Labour Convention, 2006(f)(g)(h)reporting to the competent authority;specification of the authorization from the competent authority to the recognizedorganization; andthe competent authority’s supervision of activities delegated to the recognizedorganization.4. Each Member should require the recognized organizations to develop a systemfor qualification of staff employed by them as inspectors to ensure the timely updatingof their knowledge and expertise.5. Each Member should require the recognized organizations to maintain recordsof the services performed by them such that they are able to demonstrate achievementof the required standards in the items covered by the services.6. In establishing the oversight procedures referred to in Standard A5.1.2, paragraph3(b), each Member should take into account the Guidelines for the Authorizationof Organizations Acting on Behalf of the Administration, adopted in the frameworkof the International Maritime Organization.Regulation 5.1.3 – Maritime labour certificate and declaration of maritime labourcompliance1. This Regulation applies to ships of:(a) 500 gross tonnage or over, engaged in international voyages; and(b) 500 gross tonnage or over, flying the flag of a Member and operating from a port,or between ports, in another country.For the purpose of this Regulation, “international voyage” means a voyage from a countryto a port outside such a country.2. This Regulation also applies to any ship that flies the flag of a Member andis not covered by paragraph 1 of this Regulation, at the request of the shipowner to theMember concerned.3. Each Member shall require ships that fly its flag to carry and maintain a maritimelabour certificate certifying that the working and living conditions of seafarers onthe ship, including measures for ongoing compliance to be included in the declarationof maritime labour compliance referred to in paragraph 4 of this Regulation, have beeninspected and meet the requirements of national laws or regulations or other measuresimplementing this Convention.4. Each Member shall require ships that fly its flag to carry and maintain adeclaration of maritime labour compliance stating the national requirements implementingthis Convention for the working and living conditions for seafarers and settingout the measures adopted by the shipowner to ensure compliance with the requirementson the ship or ships concerned.5. The maritime labour certificate and the declaration of maritime labour complianceshall conform to the model prescribed by the Code.6. Where the competent authority of the Member or a recognized organizationduly authorized for this purpose has ascertained through inspection that a ship thatflies the Member’s flag meets or continues to meet the standards of this Convention, itshall issue or renew a maritime labour certificate to that effect and maintain a publiclyavailable record of that certificate.76