Section 27: Certificates to be held by master and engineer of vessel of less than forty horse-power.

An inland mechanically propelled vessel having engines of less than forty nominal horse-power shall not proceed on any voyage unless she has—

(a) as her master a person possessing a scrang‟s certificate granted under this Act, or any certificate referred to in clause (a) of section 26, and

(b) as her engineer a person possessing a second -class engine-driver‟s certificate granted under this Act, or any certificate referred to in clause (b) of section 26:

Provided that a mechanically propelled vessel shall be deemed to have complied with this section if she has as her master and engineer a person possessing both a certificate referred to in clause (a), and a certificate referred to in clause (b), of this section.