Artikel 6 Stockholm Agreement 1996

Article 6 Mutual Acceptance of Documents 1 Each Contracting Government shall provide each ship entitled to fly its flag and to which the present Agreement applies with a document indicating that the ship complies with the specific stability requirements. 2 The Contracting Governments agree to accept a document provided under paragraph 1 as evidence that the ship to which the document relates complies with the specific stability requirements. 3 When a State non-party to the present Agreement issues a document indicating that a ship complies with the specific stability requirements such a document will be accepted as prima facie evidence that the ship so complies.