1490
How long certificates to continue in force.
[[bid, sec. 315.]
Governor may cancel certificates, and require fresh declarations. (Ibid, sec. 316.)
Copy of certificate to be placed in conspicuous part of ship. Ibid, sec. 317.
ORDINANCE No. 8 of 1879.
Merchant Shipping.
13. No certificate shall be held to be in force for the purposes of this section beyond a period of twelve months; and no certificate shall be in force after notice is given by the Governor to the owner, agent, or master of the ship to which the same relates, that he has cancelled or revoked the same.
Provided that if any steam-ship is absent from the Colony at the time when her certificate expires no penalty shall be incurred until she commences a voyage after her next subsequent return to the Colony, and the Governor may require any certificate which has expired or has been revoked or cancelled to be delivered up as he directs, and any owner, agent, or master, who without any reasonable cause neglects or refuses to comply with such requirement, shall incur a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars.
14. The Governor may revoke and cancel such certificates in any case in which he has reason to believe :
(a.) That the declarations of the sufficiency and good condition of the hull, equipments, and machinery of any steam-ship have been fraudulently or erroneously made; or,
(b.) That such certificate has otherwise been issued upon false or erroneous information; or,
(c.) That since the making of such declarations, the hull, equipments, or machinery of such steam-ship have sustained any injury, or are otherwise insufficient:
And in every such case the Governor may, if he thinks fit, require the owner to have the hull, equipments or machinery of such steam-ship again surveyed, and to transmit a further declaration or declarations of the sufficiency and good condition thereof, before re-issuing any certificate, or granting a fresh one in lieu thereof.
15. The owner, agent, or master of every such steam-ship, shall forthwith, on the transmission of any such certificate as aforesaid to him or his agent, cause one of the duplicates thereof so transmitted to be put up in some conspicuous part of the ship, so as to be visible to all persons on board the same, and shall cause it to be continued so put up so long as such certificate remains in force and such steam-ship is in use; and in default, such owner, agent, or master shall, for every offence, incur a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars.