MERCHANT SHIPPING.
PART II.
MASTERS AND SEAMEN.
Certificates of Competency.
No. 10 of 1899.
947
mate, and engineer to certificates.
4.-(1) The name of a master, first, only, or second mate, or first Master, or second engineer shall not be attached to the register or articles of agreement of any British or colonial ship, unless such master, mate, or engineer possesses a certificate of service or competency granted in the United Kingdom under the Merchant Shipping Acts, or a colonial certificate of competency declared by Order-in-Council to be of the same force as if it had been granted under the said Acts.
(2) Every British ship, and every colonial ship exceeding 60 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 :—
(a) in any case, with a duly certificated master;
(b) if the ship is of 100 tons or upwards, with at least one officer besides the master holding a certificate not lower than that of only mate, or of second mate in the case of a sailing ship of not more than 200 tons, or of mate of a river steamer, in the case of a river 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 100 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 100 nominal horse-power, with at least one engineer who is a first class or second class engineer duly certificated.
Provided that any British or colonial ship exceeding 60 tons but not exceeding 300 tons regularly plying between the Colony and any places on the Canton or West River or any river in the interior of the Kwangtung or Kwangsi province, or between the Colony and Macao, shall be deemed to comply with the requirements of this sub-section if it does not carry more than 12 passengers and is provided...
* As amended by No. 2 of 1903, No. 5 of 1905, No. 9 of 1909, No. 30 of 1911, No. 48 of 1911, No. 50 of 1911, No. 51 of 1911, No. 10 of 1912, No. 17 of 1912 and No. 21 of 1912.