Versions of s. 319(4)

For the purposes of this section and of section 318, the Governor in Council may, by regulations made under subsection (5), provide that a survey or inspection of a ship by an exclusive surveyor to a society or association for the classification and registry of ships, if made at a place in Canada, may be deemed to have been made by a steamship inspector, and the report of that surveyor may be delivered to the Chairman or to a steamship inspector, as the case may be, who is entitled to act on it and issue the appropriate inspection or Safety Convention certificates.