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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND NOVEMBER, 1862.
Certificate to be de- livered up.
Enactment of Re- gulations concerning
Schedule Table (C.)`
(1.) The Power of cancelling or suspending the Certificate of a Master or Mate by the 242nd Section of the Principal Act conferred on the Board of Trade shall (except in the Case provided for by the Fourth Paragraph of the said Section) vest in and be exercised by the Local Marine Board, Ma- gistrates, Naval Court, Admiralty Court, or other Court or Tribunal by which the Case is investigated or tried, and shall not in future vest in or be exercised by the Board of Trade:
(2.) Such Power shall extend to cancelling or suspending the Certificates of En- gincers in the same Manner as if "Certificated Engineer" or "Certificated Engineers" were inserted throughout such Section after "Master" or "Macters":
(3.) Every such Board, Court, or Tribunal shall at the Conclusion of the Case, or as soon afterwards as possible, state in open Court the Decision to which they may have come with respect to cancelling or suspending Certificates, and shall in all Cases send a full Report upon the Case, with the Evi- dence, to the Board of Trade, and shall also, if they determine to cancel or suspend any Certificate, forward such Certificate to the Board of Trade with their Report:
(4.) It shall be lawful for the Board of Trade, if they think the Justice of the Case require it, to reissue and return any Certificate which has been cancelled or suspended, or shorten the Time for which it is suspended, or grant a new Certificate of the same or any lower Grade in place of any Certificate which has been cancelled or suspended:
(5.) The 434th and 437th Sections of the Principal Act shall be read as if for the
Word "Nautical" were substituted the Words "Nautical or Engineering," and as if for the Word "Person" and "Assessor" respectively were sub- stituted the Words "Person or Persons" and "Assessor or Assessors" respectively:
(6.) No Certificate shall be cancelled or suspended under this Section unless a Copy of the Report or a Statement of the Case upon which the Investi- gation is ordered has been furnished to the Owner of the Certificate before the Commencement of the Investigation, nor, in the Case of In- vestigations conducted by Justices or a Stipendiary Magistrate, unless One Assessor at least expresses his Concurrence in the Report.
24. Every Master or Mate or Engineer whose Certificate is or is to be suspended or cancelled in pursuance of this Act shall, upon Demand of the Board, Court, or Tri- bunal by which the Case is invesgated or tried, deliver his Certificate to them, or, if it is not demanded by such Board, Court, or Tribunal, shall upon Demand, deliver it to the Board of Trade, or as it directs, and in default shall for each Offence incur a Penalty not exceeding Fifty Pounds.
Safety (Part IV. of Merchant Shipping Act, 1854.)
25. On and after the First Day of June One thousand eight hundred and sixty- Lights, Fog Signals, three, or such latter Day as may be fixed for the Purpose by Order in Council,
the and Sailing Rules in Regulations contained in the Table marked (C.) in the Schedule hereto shall come into operation and be of the same Force as if they were enacted in the Body of this Act; but Her Majesty may from Time to Time, on the joint Recommendation of the Ad- miralty and the Board of Trade, by Order in Council, annual or modify any of the said Rugulations, or make new Regulations in addition thereto or in substitution therefore; and any Alterations in or Additions to such Regulations made in manner aforesaid shall be of the same Force as the Regulations in the said Schedule.
Regulations to be published.
Owners and Masters
26. The Board of Trade shall cause the said Regulations and any Alterations. therein or Additions thereto hereafter to be made to be printed, and shall furnish a Copy thereof to any Owner or Master of a Ship who applies for the same; and Production of the Gazette in which any Order in Council containing such Regulations or any Alterations therein or Additions thereto is published, or of a Copy of such Regulations, Alterations, or Additions, signed or purporting to be signed by One of the Secretaries or Assistant Secretaries of the Board of Trade, or sealed or purporting to be sealed with the Seal of the Board of Trade, shall be sufficient Evidence of the due making and Purport of such Regulations, Alterations, or Additions.
27. All Owners and Masters of Ships shall be bound to take notice of all such bound to obey them. Regulations as aforesaid, and shall, so long as the same continue in force, be bound to