---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 54.20-5"
title: "46"
number: "54.20-5"
heading: "Welding qualification tests and production testing (modifies UW-26, UW-28, UW-29, UW-47, and UW-48)."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/54.20-5"
---

# §54.20-5. Welding qualification tests and production testing (modifies UW-26, UW-28, UW-29, UW-47, and UW-48).

- (a) **Performance and procedure qualification.** No production welding must be done until welding procedures and welders have been qualified in accordance with [part 57](/cfr/46/part57.md) of this subchapter.
- (b) **Tests.** Production tests are required in accordance with [§ 57.06-1](/cfr/46/57.06-1.md) of this subchapter.

## Notes

### Amendments

[CGFR 68-82, 33 FR 18828, Dec. 18, 1968, as amended by CGFR 69-127, 35 FR 9977, June 17, 1970]

### Authority

Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1509; 43 U.S.C. 1333; 46 U.S.C. 3306, 3703; E.O. 12234, 45 FR 58801, 3 CFR, 1980 Comp., p. 277; Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 00170.1, Revision No. 01.3.

### Source

Source: CGFR 68-82, 33 FR 18828, Dec. 18, 1968, as amended by USCG-2020-0634, 89 FR 50104, June 12, 2024, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[CGFR 68-82, 33 FR 18828, Dec. 18, 1968, as amended by CGFR 69-127, 35 FR 9977, June 17, 1970]