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c. 60.
No 10.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [ADO.
engineer possesses a certificate of service or competency granted in 57 & 58 Vict. United Kingdom under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, or a Certificate of Competency declared by Order of Her Majesty-in-Council to be of the same force as if it had been granted under the said Act.
(2.) Every British ship, and every Colonial ship exceeding sixty tons, and every Foreign ship holding a passenger certificate under section 10, shall, when leaving any Port of the Colony, be provided with officers who possess valid certificates of competency of a grade appropriate to their stations in the ship or of a higher grade, according to the following scale :-
Certificated officers of British ship, Colonial ship exceeding 60 tons, and Foreign ship holding passenger certificate. M. S. Act, 1894, s. 92.
9/095:13
Fur Provess
Ord.5/05 5.3. Ord 48/11§ 2. Comunested pros.
d.
ord 5/05 3.4.
officers of
(a.) in any case, with a duly certificated master;
(b.) if the ship is of one hundred tons or upwards, with at least one officer besides the master holding a certificate not lower than that of only mate or of mate of a river steamer, in the case of a steamer;
(c.) if the ship carries more than one mate, with at least the first and second mates duly certificated;
(d.) if the ship is a steamship of one hundred nominal horse power or upwards, with at least two engineers, one of whom shall be a first-class and the other a first-class or second-class engineer duly certificated; and,
(e.) if the ship is a steamship of less than one hundred nominal horse-power, with at least one engineer who is a first-class or second class engineer duly certificated.
Every Colonial ship not exceeding sixty tons trading or plying for hire shall, when leaving the waters of the Colony, be provided with officers who possess valid certificates of competency according to the following scale :-
*60 tons.
Proviso Ship leaving
ord 2/035.3 without
certificated officers.
(a.) the master must possess a certificate appropriate to the grade of second mate or of a higher grade; and
(b.) the engineer (in the case of a steamship) must possess a certificate appropriate to the grade of second class engineer or a higher grade.
(4.) The master of any British or Colonial ship, or of any Foreign ship exceeding sixty tons holding a passenger certificate under section 10, leaving or attempting to leave any Port of the Colony without having on board, and entered on the register and articles of agreement, officers possessing the certificates required by this section shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars; and it shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to refuse a port clearance to any British or Colonial ship, or to any Foreign ship holding a passenger certificate under section 10, in case of non-compliance with the provisions of sub-sections (2.) and (3.) of this section; and if any ship to which this sub-section refers leaves or attempts to leave...