1126 THE HONGKONG GOVT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, 9TH DEC., 1891.
Board of Examiners to be appointed. (764d sub-s.4.)
Constitution of Board
Harbour Mas-
ter to summon bourd and
notify applicant.
(Ibid. sub-s. 5.)
Foo to be paid by applicant. (bil sub s. 6.)
Fees to members of board.
(Thid, sub-s. 73
Certificate to be given to successful Candidates. (Ibid. sub-s, and No. 14 Of 1884.)
(Ord. No. 14 of 1884.)
(4.) It shall therenpou be lawful for the Governor to constitute and appoint a board of examiners to inquire into the competency of such applicant, and such board shall consist of three members, one of whom shall be the Harbour Master, and of the remaining two one or both shall be Com- missioned Officers in the Royal Navy, or Masters, or duly qualified Engineers in the mercantile marine.
(5.) Upon such appointment being notified to the Har- bour Master, he shall summon the other members of the said board to attend at the Harbour Master's office for the pur- pose of examining the said applicant, at a day and at an hour to be named in such summons, (such day not to be more than seven days after the date of such summons); and shall also notify the applicant to attend accordingly.
(6.) Every applicant for a certificate of competency shall, upon lodging his application, pay to the Harbour Master a fee, if for a master's or first class engineer's certificate, of twenty dollars, and if for any other certificate, of fifteen dollars.
(7.) Every member of the board, except the Harbour Master, and assistant Harbour Master shall be entitled to receive out of the public revenue of the Colony a fee of five dollars for the examination of each applicant.
(8.) Any applicant who shall have passed a satisfactory examination, and shall have given satisfactory evidence of his sobriety, experience and general good conduct on board ship shall be entitled to receive a certificate of competency signed by the Governor upon the recommendation of the Board to the effect that he is competent to act as master, as first, second or only mate, or as first or second engineer.
(9.) Certificates of competency granted under this section shall be subject to the Regulations made under the Order of Her Majesty in Council dated the 9th May, 1891, with respect to the use delivery cancellation and suspension of Colonial certificates of competency and to any further Regulations which may subsequently be made under the same authority.
Mercantile
Marine
Office. (M. S. A. 1831 12×(.. a]: o 26 and 26 vie. us. 63 s. 15.)
Masters, mates and engineers
10 pos×OBS CUT- tifientes. (No. 8 of 1879 s. 16, sub-s, 1.)
32 Vic. e. 11.
No British
ship to proceed to sea without certificate of
the master and male.
(Ibid. sub-s. 2.)
Steam-ships
10 CAFTY
cvrtificated cagineers. (Thid.b-s.3.)
CHAPTER V.
SHIPPING AND DISCHARGE OF SEAMEN.
16. (1.) It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint within the Colony a place to be called the Mercantile Marine Office at which place shall be conducted all the business connected with the engagement and discharge of seamen on board British ships and ships whose flag is not re- presented by a Consul.
The Harbour Master shall be the Superintendent of the said Mercantile Marine Office.
(2.) The name of a master, first, only or second mate, or first or second engineer shall not be attached to the register, or articles of agreement, of any British or Colonial ship, unless such master, mate, or engineer shall possess a certificate of service or competency issued by the Board of Trade or by the proper authority in any British Possession under and subject to the provisions and conditions of the Merchant Shipping (Colonial) Act 1869 and the Orders in Council relating thereto.
(3.) No British ship shall leave the waters of the Colony unless the master thereof, and the first and second mates, or only mate (as the case may be) have obtained and possess valid certificates of competency or service appropriate to their several stations in such ship, or of a higher grade, and no such ship if of one hundred tons burden or upwards, shall leave the waters as aforesaid, unless at least one officer, besides the master, has obtained, and possesses a valid certificate appropriate to the grade of only mate therein, or to a higher grade.
(4.) Every British steam-ship of one hundred nominal horse power or upwards, leaving the waters of the Colony shall have as its first and second engineers, two certificated engineers, the first possessing a first class engineer's certificate," and the second possessing a "second class engineer's certificate," or a certificate of the higher grade, and every British steam-ship, of less than one hundred nominal borse power shall have as its only or first engineer, an engineer possessing a "second class engineer's certificate” or a certificate of the higher grade.
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