206LAuthority may request Safety Convention countries to issue certificates

#### 206L Authority may request Safety Convention countries to issue certificates (1) The Authority may request the government of a country to which the Safety Convention applies to issue or to authorise the issue of, or to endorse or to authorise the endorsement of, in respect of a ship registered in Australia, a certificate that: (a) by virtue of the Safety Convention or a law of that country which gives effect to that Convention, the government of that country may issue or authorise the issue of, or endorse or authorise the endorsement of in respect of a ship registered in that country; and (b) corresponds, or substantially corresponds, with a certificate which the Authority is empowered under this Division to issue in respect of that ship. (2) A certificate issued or endorsed in pursuance of such a request, and containing a statement that it has been so issued or endorsed, has effect, for the purposes of this Act, as if it were a certificate of the kind to which it corresponds issued or endorsed under this Division.