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Colonial
COLONIAL PROVISIONS OF
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers vested in Load-lines. Her by the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, is pleased to declare and doth hereby declare that any load-line fixed and marked and any certificate given in pursuance of the said enactment shall, with respect to such ships so registered, have the same effect as if it had been fixed, marked, or given in pursuance of Part V of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.
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POSSESSIONS TO WHICH THE SECTION HAS BEEN APPLIED.
India,
South Australia,
Straits Settlements,...
Victoria,
.28th Nov., 1899
.15th May, 1900
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Colonial Certificates of Competency.
Colonial cer- tificates of competency. [Certificates of competency for masters, mates and engineers are granted in Hong-kong under s. 4. of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899.]
M. S. ACT, 1894, s. 102.-
102. Where the Legislature of any British possession provides for the examination of, and grant of certificates of competency to, persons intending to act as masters, mates, or engineers on board ships, and the Board of Trade report to Her Majesty that they are satisfied that the examinations are so conducted as to be equally efficient with the examinations for the same purpose in the United Kingdom under this Act, and that the certificates are granted on such principles as to show the like qualifications and competency as those granted under this Act, and are liable to be forfeited for the like reasons and in the like manner, Her Majesty may by Order in Council :—
(i) declare that the said certificates shall be of the same force as if they had been granted under this Act and
(ii) declare that all or any of the provisions of this Act, which relate to certificates of competency granted under this Act, shall apply to the certificates referred to in the Order: and
(iii) impose such conditions and make such regulations with respect to the certificates, and to the use, issue, delivery, cancellation, and suspension
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