Batas Pambansa No. 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.
P. B. No. 281 / 75 OG No. 5, 851 (January 29, 1979)
[ BATAS PAMBANSA BLG. 9, December 06, 1978 ]
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.
Be it enacted by the Batasang Pambansa in session assembled:
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."
SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Approved, December 6, 1978.