MERCHANT SHIPPING.
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(b) from a decision affecting the certificate of a master, (s. 19 contd.) mate, or engineer, if that certificate has not been granted, either in the United Kingdom or in a British possession, under the authority of the Merchant Shipping Acts.
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(13) It shall be the duty of the person who has applied Person who for a Marine Court to superintend the management of the "pplies for case and to render such assistance to the court as is in his assist it. power.
57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, s. 466.
(14) The court may also exercise the following further Further powers:
(a) it may, if unanimous that the safety of the ship or crew, or the interest of the owner, absolutely requires it, supersede the master of any British ship then being within the waters of the Colony, and may appoint another person to act in his stead; but no such appointment shall be made without the consent of the consignee of the ship, if within the Colony;
(b) it may discharge any mate, engineer, or seaman from his ship;
(c) it may order the wages of any mate, engineer, or seaman so discharged, or any part of such wages, to be forfeited, and may direct the same to be retained by way of compensation to the owner or to be paid into the Treasury; and
powers of court,
(d) it may make such order as it thinks fit respecting the costs of the investigation or any part thereof, and such order shall be enforced by the court in the same way as an order Ordinance for costs under the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890.
No. 3 of 1890.
(15) Each member of the court shall either sign the report Members to made on any investigation under this section or report to the sign report. Governor his reasons for dissent therefrom.
(16) Every master, mate, or engineer whose certificate is Delivery up suspended or cancelled in pursuance of this Ordinance shall, of certificate. on the demand of the court, deliver his certificate to the court, or, if it is not demanded by the court, deliver it to the Governor or as he directs, and in default he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.
(17) Where an investigation into the conduct of a master, Re-hearing. mate, or engineer, or into a casualty, has been held under this Ordinance, the Governor may, in any case, and shall, if new and important evidence which could not be produced at