THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 8, 1939.
Made by the Minister of Pensions, with the consent of the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, this twenty-second day of September, 1939.
ADAIR HORE,
Secretary.
FIRST SCHEDULE.
PROVISIONS FOR DETERMINING THE EQUIVALENT NAVAL RANK OF MARINERS.
1. A mariner who is, on the material date, employed or engaged on a British ship of a description to which one of the Tables contained in this Schedule relates, in a grade, or in a grade and circumstances, specified in the first column of that Table, shall be treated as holding on that date such equivalent naval rank as is specified in that Table in relation to that grade, or to that grade and those circumstances, and in relation to a British ship of a description which corresponds to the description of the British ship in which he is then so employed or engaged.
2. A mariner who is, on the material date, employed or engaged on an Admiralty Yard Craft in a grade specified in the first column of Table V contained in this Schedule, or on a vessel belonging to the War Department in a grade specified in the first column of Table VI contained in this Schedule, shall be treated as holding on that date such equivalent naval rank as is specified in the appropriate Table in relation to that grade.
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3. ** Certificated when used with reference to any grade specified in the first column of Table I contained in this Schedule shall mean in relation to a mariner employed or engaged in such a grade on a ship of a description to which any part of that Table relates, the holding by that mariner of :-
(a) a valid certificate of competency of that grade for that ship, or (b) a valid certificate of competency of a higher grade, or
(c) a valid certificate of service which allows that mariner to go to sea on that ship as a mariner of that grade.
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