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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH JUNE, 1890.
(h) by the Lieutenant Governor of the Possession of Bengal, from and after the 27th day of June, 1876, to persons intending to act as Masters, Mates, or Engineers on board British ships;
(i) by the Governor of the Possession of Newfoundland, from and after the 14th day of May, 1877, to persons intending to act as Masters or Mates on board British ships;
(k) by the Governor of the Possession of Bombay, from and after the 11th day of July, 1877, to persons intending to act as Masters, Mates, or Engineers on board British ships;
(1) by the Marine Board of the Possession of Queensland, from and after the 1st day of October, 1877, to persons intending to act as Masters, Mates, or Engineers on board British ships;
(m) by the Governor of the Possession of Hong Kong, from and after the 1st day of January, 1884, to persons intending to act as Masters, Mates, or Engineers on board British ships;
(n) by the Governor of the Possession of the Straits Settlements, from and after the 1st day of August, 1888, to persons intending to act as First Class Engineers and Second Class Engineers of sea-going British ships, shall be of the same forc, as if they had been granted under the said Acts:
2. To declare that all the provisions of the said Acts which relate to Certificates of Competency for the foreign trade granted under those Acts, except so much of the 139th section of The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," and of the 10th section of "The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862," as requires the delivery by the Board of Trade to any Master, Mate, or Engineer of a copy of any certificate to which he appears to be entitled as therein men- tioned, and except so much of the third sub-section of the 23rd section of the said last-men- tioned Act as requires, at the conclusion of a case relating to the cancelling or suspending of a certificate, such certificate, if cancelled or suspended, to be forwarded to the Board of Trade, and except the whole of the provisions of the fourth sub-section of the same section, shall apply to such Colonial Certificates of Competency; provided, however, that in the case of New Zealand the foregoing exceptions shall not interfere with or suspend the operation of an Act of the Legislature of New Zealand, intituled "The Merchant Shipping Act Adoption Act, 1869" (32 & 33 Vict., No. 5):
3. To impose and make the regulations set out in the Schedule A. hereto, numbered 1 to 12 respectively, with respect to the said Colonial Certificates of Competency, and to the use, issue, delivery, cancellation and suspension thereof, and to impose for the breach of such regulations the penalties therein mentioned:
4. To revoke the conditions and regulations, numbered 1 to 10 respectively, set out in the Schedules to the said recited Orders in Council, and to substitute therefor the regulations set out in the Schedule A. hereto, numbered 1 to 12 respectively, and to declare that, from and after the time when this Order takes effect, the regulations set out in the Schedule A. hereto shall apply to all Colonial Certificates that may heretofore have been or shall be hereafter granted as aforesaid:
5. To declare that this Order shall take effect in each of the said Possessions immediately it is published in the said Possessions enumerated in the Schedule B. hereto, and that all Certi- ficates granted in the said Possession subsequently to the dates named in the Schedule B. and before this Order comes into force shall have the same effect, and be of the same value, and confer the same privileges on the holders thereof as if granted after this present Order. 6. To direct that the said herein-before recited Orders in Council shall be revoked in each of the said possessions on the day on which this Order takes effect therein as provided in the preceding paragraph (5) hereof: provided, however, that the revocation of the said Orders in Council shall not affect or invalidate any Colonial Certificate of Competency previously granted to which the said Orders in Council apply, or affect the validity or invalidity of anything done under the said Orders in Council before this Order takes effect or any obligation heretofore incurred.
C. L. PEEL.
SCHEDULE A.
REGULATIONS with respect to the use, issue, delivery, cancellation, and suspension of COLONIAL CERTIFICATES
of COMPETENCY.
Interpretation clause.
In the construction and for the purposes of these regulations, the following terms shall have the respective meanings hereinafter assigned to them, that is to say :-
“Colonial Certificate of Competency" shall mean a Certificate of Competency granted by the Legislative authority of
a British Possession to Persons intending to act as Masters, Mates, or Engineers of British ships.