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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.