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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 21, 1913. 435
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.
No. 363.-The following Regulations relating to the Examinations of Masters and Mates in the Mercantile Marine were made by the Officer Administering the Government- in-Council under Sub-section (8) of Section 4 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, (Ordinance No. 10 of 1899), on the 13th day of November, 1913, and all regulations previously in force were then cancelled.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
13th November, 1913.
CHAPTER I.
K. H. CROFTON,
Clerk of Councils.
General Rules.
1. These Regulations are issued in pursuance of the Merchant Authority for
Regulations. Shipping Ordinance, No. 10 of 1899.
tions 1913
In accordance with sub-section 2 of section 4 of that Ordin- Board of ance, every British Ship, and every Colonial Ship exceeding 60 Trade Regula- tons, and every Foreign Ship holding a Passenger Certificate under Sec. 1. section 10, shall, when leaving any Port of the Colony, be provided with Officers who possess valid Certificates of Competency of a grade appropriate to their stations in the Ship; or of a higher grade, according to the following scale :----
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(a.) In any case, with a duly certificated Master.
(b.) If the Ship is of one hundred tons or upwards, with at least one officer besides the Master holding a certificate not lower than that of Only Mate, or, of Mate of a River Steamer, in the case of a River Steamer.
(c.) If the Ship carries more than one Mate, with at least
the First and Second Mates duly certificated.
Sub-section 4 of the same Ordinance provides that the Master of any British Ship, or of any Colonial Ship, or of any Foreign Ship holding a Passenger Certificate under section 10, leaving or attemping to leave any Port of the Colony without having on board and entered on the register and Articles of Agreement officer's possessing the certificates required by this section, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars.
Sub-section 5 provides that every person who, having been engaged in any of the above mentioned capacities in any such ship, goes to sea in that capacity without being at the time entitled to, and possessed of, such certificate as is required by this section, and every person who employs any person in any of the above named capacities in such ship without ascertaining that he is at the time entitled to, or possessed of, such certificate, shall, for each such offence, be liable to a penalty not exceeding Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars.
Certificates granted to persons who
2. Certificates of Competency will be granted to those personS who pass the requisite examination, and otherwise comply with the requisite conditions. For this purpose examiners have been pass exami- appointed.
nations.
examinations.
3. The examinations will commence on such a day and at such Date of an hour as may be appointed by the Harbour Master.
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