MERCHANT shipping.
No. 10 of 1899.
Order of His Majesty in Council, with respect to the use, delivery, cancellation and suspension of colonial certificates of competency.
REGULATIONS. [cf. Orders in Council, 9th May, 1891, and 22nd October, 1906.]
(16) If a master, mate or engineer proves, to the satisfaction of the Governor, that he has, without fault on his part, lost or been deprived of a certificate already granted to him in case of under this section, the Governor shall, and in any other case may, on payment of such fee, if any, as he may direct, cause a copy of the certificate to which, by the record kept, he appears to be entitled to be delivered to him; and such copy shall have all the effect of the original.
(17) The master of a ship, on signing the agreement with the crew before the Superintendent of the Mercantile Marine Office, shall produce to him the certificates of competency which the master, mates and engineers of the ship are hereby required to hold.
(18) Every person who-
(a) makes, assists in making or procures to be made any false representation for the purpose of procuring, either for himself or for any other person, a certificate of competency; or
(b) fraudulently uses a certificate or copy of a certificate of competency which has been forged, altered, cancelled or suspended, or to which he is not entitled; or
(c) fraudulently lends his certificate of competency or allows it to be used by any other person,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, s. 103.
57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, s. 104.
5.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint within the Colony a place to be called the Mercantile Marine Office, at which place shall be conducted all the business connected
As amended by No. 23 of 1932 [10.12.32] and Law Rev. Ord., 1937. The provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, and the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, with reference to the engagement of seamen and to agreements made with seamen by masters of ships are not affected by the Employers and Servants Ordinance, 1902. See No. 45 of 1902, s. 26.