SCHEDULE 4STANDARDS OF COMPETENCE FOR BOATMASTER’S LICENCES AND CERTIFICATES

PART 1BOATMASTER’S LICENCES

Evidence of attainment of appropriate standard of competence

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1

The assessment may, at the examiner’s discretion, consist of all or any of the following—

a

a practical test of seamanship and vessel handling skill in a variety of circumstances chosen by the examiner and conducted on board a vessel of a kind reasonably representative of the class of vessel the command of which the licence or endorsement would authorise in waters appropriate to that class of licence or endorsement,

b

a written or oral test of the candidate’s knowledge underpinning his practical skills, and

c

oral questions about the entries in the Task Record Book,

2

Different parts of the assessment may, if the examiner agrees, take place on different occasions.