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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 27, 1931.
Endorsement of First Class Engineer's Certificate, if the applicant previously held a Second Class Certificate appropriate to the endorsement desired
Endorsement of First Class Engineer's Certificate, if the applicant. had not previously held a Second Class Certificate of this description
$15
$20
15. Fees not Returned on Failure.-If a candidate fails in his examination, no part of the fee he has paid will be returned to him.
16. Sea Service Must be Verified.---Service which cannot be verified by pro- per entries in the articles of agreement of the ships in which the applicants have served cannot be counted. In all cases the applicants' names must have been duly entered on the ship's Articles as Engineers in their proper ranks.
As discharges and testimonials may have to be forwarded to the Registrar General of Seamen for verification, it is desirable that they should be handed in, together with the form of application, as many days as possible before the date of examination at which the applicant desires to attend. In the absence of the necessary verification the applicant cannot be examined.
When certificates of discharge in the home or other trade which have not been officially issued at a Mercantile Marine Office are produced as evidence of any part of an applicant's qualifying service, they should be submitted by the Examiner to the Registrar General of Seamen for verification.
17. Service in Foreign Vessels -The testimonials of service of Engineers serving in foreign vessels, which cannot be verified by the Registrar-General of Seamen, must be confirmed either by the Consul of the country to which the ship in which the applicant served belonged, or by some other recognised official authority of that country; or by the testimony of some credible person on the spot, having personal knowledge of the facts required to be established. The production, however, of such proofs will not of necessity be deemed sufficient. Each case must be decided on its merits; and if the sufficiency of the proofs given appears to be at all doubtful, the point must be referred to the Chief Examiner.
18. Calculation of Service.-The applicant's service, as shown on his discharges, should be reckoned by the calendar month, i.e., the time included between any given day in any month and the preceding day of the following month, both inclusive. The number of complete months from the commencement of the period, ascertained in this way, should be computed, after which the number of odd days should be counted. The day on which the agreement commences as well as that on which it terminates should both be included and all odd days should be added together and reckoned at 30 to the month.
19. Gaps in Service. The Examiner should be particularly careful to ascertain that there are no gaps in the applicant's service during which his conduct is not pro- perly accounted for, before he is allowed up for examination.
20. Testimonials; Workshop Service. -All applicants will be required to produce, in addition to the official discharge certificates, testimonials as to their workshop service and as to their service at sea. The testimonials as to workshop service must be signed by the employer, and must testify to the applicant's conduct and ability, and state what kind of work, he was engaged on (e.g. fitting, erecting, turning, machine work, etc.), and for how long. (See rule 35.)
21. Testimonials; Sea Service-Every applicant should produce testimonials in respect of the qualifying period of his service signed, in each case, by the Chief Engineer under whom his service has been performed, stating his actual rank on watch, the number of engineers simultaneously on watch on the main propelling machinery, and the nature of the duties performed by him. When the applicant is a Chief Engineer he should produce testimonials signed by the Engineer Superintendent, or by the Managing Owner, or Secretary of the Company. It is desirable that the whole of the