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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRURAY 12, 1910.
(5.) The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association will also accept instruction by a ship's surgeon on board ship as qualifying a Candidate for examination for their Certificate of proficiency in First Aid, provided their syllabus is followed. In this case the Candidate must previously have enrolled and obtained an attendance card by applying to the local secretary of the Association, or to the head office at 176. West Regent Street, Glasgow.
(6.) It will not be necessary for the Candidate for a Certificate as Master or Mate in all cases to produce the formal Certificate of pro- ficiency in First Aid issued by the Associations. In order to prevent delay in proceeding with the examination for the Certificate as Master or Mate and in the issue of the Certificate to successful Candidates, the special Mercantile Marine linen Certificate issued by the St. John Ambulance Association and duly signed by the Lecturer, the Surgeon Examiner and the Association's local representative, or, in Scotland, a certificate signed by the Local Examiner of the St. Andrew's Ambulance Association, to the effect that the Candidate has passed the examination for a Certificate of proficiency, may be accepted as showing that the Candidate possesses the required knowledge of First Aid.
Sight Tests.
23. Every Candidate for a Certificate of Competency of any grade Sight Tests. must pass the three sight tests before he can proceed to the examination BT Beg. in Navigation and Seamanship.
(1.) The sight tests are open to all persons serving or intending to serve in the Mercantile Marine, and all such persons are recommended to take the earliest opportunity of ascertaining by means of these tests whether their vision is such as to qualify them for service in that profession.
(2.) The three tests are:-
(a.) Form vision test.
(b.) Colour vision test.
(c.) Colour ignorance test.
No Candidate will be examined in the colour vision test until he has passed the form vision test, or in the colour ignorance test until he has passed the colour vision test.
This rule must be observed whether the Candidate has or has not on any previous occasion passed the sight tests.
(3.) Any person serving or intending to serve in the Mercantile Marine, if desirous of undergoing the form vision, colour vision, and colour ignorance tests only, must make application to the Harbour Master, and pay a fee of Fifty Cents.
This fee will be payable on each occasion upon which a Candidate is examined in form vision and colour tests only.
(4.) Candidates who fail to pass the form vision test or the colour ignorance test can be re-examined at intervals of three months, but Candidates who fail to pass the colour vision test cannot be re-examined, It is open, however, to any Candidate who has failed to pass the colour vision test to appeal to the Board of Trade, who may, if they think fit, remit the case to a special examiner or body of examiners for final decision.
(5.) The special examinations will be held in Londou only,
(6.) When a Candidate fails to pass the colour vision test, the examiner will point our to him the conditions under which he can appeal. Appeals are to be made through the examiner, and forwarded to the Board of Trade with the examiner's remarks.
(7.) The fee paid for examination for a Certificate of Competency includes the fee of fifty cents for examination in form vision, colour vision, and colour ignorance, and if the Candidate fails to pass these tests, this fee will, with the exception of fifty cents, be returned to him. (8.) Only examiners who have themselves passed the colour vision test are to undertake these examinations.
(9.) Whenever the holder of a Certificate of Competency fails to pass any one of the three tests, there is reason to believe that he is from incompetency unfit to discharge his duties, and in the public interest the Board of Trade may cause an enquiry to be held by a Court, having jurisdiction to cancel or suspend such Certificate; but in the alternativè, the Board of Trade may accept the voluntary surrender of the Certificate until such time as the Candidate succeeds in passing the test in which
he failed.
Sec. 27.
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