M E R C H A N T    S H I P P I N G    N O T I C E S 8 of 2001

 

SUPERSEDED VIDE M.S.NOTICE 3 OF 2002

No. 27(1)/CR/2000.                                                          

16^th March, 2001.

Subject:-      Issuance of Replacement “Continuous Discharge Certificate Cum-Seafarers’ Identity Document” (CDC):

1.                 In accordance with clause (1) of section 456 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1958, the Director General of Shipping & ex-Officio Additional Secretary to the Government of India is pleased to direct that replacement “Continuous Discharge Certificate Cum-Seafarers’ Identity Document” (CDC) may be issued to any Indian seafarer, who is in possession of a CDC issued under the Merchant Shipping  (Continuous Discharge Certificate) Rules, 1960, which is damaged and does not have clear details, features and photograph or is otherwise defaced of mutilated,  subject to the following conditions:-

(i)                The candidate will be required to make an application to the Shipping Master, who had issued the CDC, in the prescribed format enclosed as Annex.

No.27(1)CR/2000                                                                                                                                                       18^th July 2001

ADDENDUM TO MERCHANT SHIPPING

NOTICE NO. 8 OF 2001

In case of Continuous Discharge Certificate (CDCs), which were issued by authorities, other than the Shipping Masters at Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai, the candidates may apply to the 3 Shipping Masters at Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai, for replacement CDCs, as indicated below :-

Authority who issued old CDCs                 Whom to contact for replacement CDCs

______________________________    __________________

                                                                                   

            Surveyor-in-charge/Shipping Master,                                              Shipping Master,

            Jamnagar, Goa                                                                                              Mumbai

            Surveyor-in-charge/Shipping Master,                                              Shipping Master,

            Kochi, Tuticorin and Visakhapatnam                                                            Chennai

            Surveyor-in-charge/Director of Shipping                                         Shipping Master,

            Services/Shipping Master, Port Blair                                                              Kolkata

2.         The Surveyor-in-charges at Jamnagar, Goa, Kochi, Tuticorin, Visakhapatnam and Harbour Master at Port Blair are requested to forward the original CDC registers to the Shipping Masters at Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai, as indicated above, after retaining a zerox copy of the same, in their Offices.

                                                                                                                                                                                   

(ii)  A processing fee of Rs. 500/- (Rupees Five Hundred only) is required to be paid by Demand Draft or Pay Order, in favour of the Shipping Master of the concerned Port. (In Chennai, the Demand Draft/Pay Order may be drawn in favour of the Principal Officer, Mercantile Marine Department).                                                        

(iii) The old Continuous Discharge Certificate will be invalidated and returned to the applicant.

(iv)            The replacement CDC will be issued under the Merchant  Shipping (CDC) Rules, 1993, as amended from time to time.

2. The CDCs issued under the Merchant Shipping (Continuous Discharge Certificate) Rules, 1960 will continue to be accepted as valid for all lawful purposes. 

3.It will not be mandatory for a seafarer to be in possession of a replacement CDC, issued under the Merchant Shipping (Continuous Discharge Certificate) Rules, 1993, as amended from time to time, for being engaged on board an Indian or a foreign flag vessel, provided he is in possession of a valid CDC issued under the Merchant Shipping (CDC) Rules, 1960.

4.                 The replacement CDCs, which were issued earlier, under the Merchant Shipping (CDC) Rules, 1960, with a life-time validity, before the issuance of this circular, will also continue to remain valid.

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