BP 9 Section 1

Section 1

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

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