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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE. 12TH APRIL, 1884.
Certificates improperly granted may be cancelled without formal investigation.
7. A Colonial Certificate of Competency which appears from information subsequently acquired, or otherwise, to have been improperly granted, whether in the above or in any other respect, may be cancelled by the authority by which the same was granted, or by the Board of Trade in the United Kingdom, without any formal investigation under "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," and the holder of such certificate shall thereupon deliver it to the Board of Trade or such authority or as they or either of them may direct, and in default thereof shall incur a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds, which shall be recoverable in the same manner as penalties imposed by the Acts relating to Merchant Shipping are thereby made recoverable.
Cancellation, &c., of a Certificate shall involve cancellation of all the other Certificates possessed by its owner.
8. Every decision with respect to the cancellation or suspension of a certificate pronounced by any board, court, or tribunal under the provisions of the said Acts, shall extend equally to all the Colonial Certificates at the time possessed by the person in respect of whom the decision is made, as well as to all certificates granted to him under any of the Acts relating to Merchant Shipping, and whether such certificates be specified in such decisions or not.
Certificates believed to be fraudulent may be demanded.
9. Any officer of the Board of Trade, or the Registrar-General of Seamen, or any of his officers, or a superintendent of a mercantile marine office, or a consular officer, or duly appointed shipping officer in a British possession, may demand the delivery to him of any Colonial Certificate of Competency which he has reason to believe has been improperly issued, or is forged, altered, cancelled, or suspended, or to which the person using it is not justly entitled, and may detain such certificate for a reasonable period for the purpose of making inquiries respecting such issue, forgery, alteration, cancellation, suspension or possession, and any person who, without reasonable cause, neglects or refuses to comply with such demand shall incur a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds or its equivalent in local currency, which shall be recoverable in the same manner as penalties imposed by the Acts relating to Merchant Shipping are thereby inade recoverable.
Suspended Certificates to be re-issued only by Colony by which originally granted.
10. A Colonial Certificate of Competency which has from any cause been cancelled or suspended, shall be renewed or re-issued only by the Authority by which the same was originally granted.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 132.
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint to be Aide-de-Camp, Captain Davis FRANCIS LEWIS, the Buffs, vice Lieutenant C. B. VYVYAN of the same Regiment, resigned."
By Command,
W. II. MARSI,
Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 7th April, 1884.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 133.
Notice is hereby given that GUSTAV TRAVERS, Esquire, Consul for the German Empire, has reported his resumption of the duties of the Consulate at this Port.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th April, 1884.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 134.
W. H. MARSII,
Colonial Secretary.
It is hereby notified for general information, that Her Majesty the QUEEN has been graciously pleased to approve the appointment of the new Un-Official Members of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 12th April, 1881.
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary.