Section 6Part 2 — ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE COAST GUARD
Command and administration of the Coast Guard
←→ Navigate · Click subsection badges to collapse · Press ? for help
6. (1) The Commandant shall be responsible for the strategic, administrative and operational command of the Coast Guard subject to —
such strategic directions with respect to the preservation of the maritime safety and the maritime security of the Islands as the Governor may give the Commandant; and
such strategic policy directions as the chief officer of the Coast Guard may give the Commandant.
Subject to subsection (1), where an officer of the Coast Guard is appointed by the Commandant to be in charge of other officers of the Coast Guard in any place, the officer of the Coast Guard appointed to be in charge shall be responsible for the control of the other officers of the Coast Guard in that place.
The Commandant shall render the Commandant’s services exclusively to the Coast Guard unless otherwise authorized by the Governor or the chief officer of the Coast Guard, and the Commandant shall be answerable to —
the Governor for the Commandant’s acts and decisions in so far as those acts or decisions relate to the preservation of the maritime safety and the maritime security of the Islands; and
the chief officer of the Coast Guard for the Commandant’s acts and decisions in so far as those acts or decisions relate to matters involving the chief officer’s power to give strategic policy directions.
Officers of the Coast Guard shall — Cayman Islands Coast Guard Act, 2021 Section 7 c Act 2 of 2021 Page 11
obey and carry out the lawful commands of the Commandant;
perform the duties assigned to officers of the Coast Guard under this Act; and
do other lawful things as may be necessary for the enforcement of this Act and the lawful commands of the Commandant.