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BATAS PAMBANSA BILANG. 9

BATAS PAMBANSA BLG. 9 - AN ACT AMENDING SECTION THIRTEEN OF PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NUMBERED NINETY-SEVEN REGULATING THE PRACTICE OF THE MARINE PROFESSION IN THE PHILIPPINES BY PRESCRIBING A UNIFORM "UNLIMITED" LICENSE FOR ALL DECK OFFICERS EXCEPT PATRONS

Section 1. Section thirteen of Presidential Decree Numbered Ninety-seven is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Section 13.The Licenses for Deck Officers shall be classified as:

"(a) Unlimited – competency to command and/or navigate merchant marine vessels of any gross tons, upon the waters of any sea or ocean.

"(b) Restricted (Major) – competency to command and/or navigate merchant marine vessels of not more than two hundred fifty gross tons in a particular water of the Philippines.

"(c) Restricted (bay, lake, river or harbor) – competency to command and/or navigate vessels of not more than twenty gross tons in a particular bay, lake, river or harbor in the Philippines."

Sec. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: December 6, 1978.
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