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(2.) Every British ship, and every Colonial ship exceed and Colonial ing 60 tons, and every Foreign ship holding a Passenger ships exceeding
Certificate under section 10 of this Ordinance shall, when GO tons. (M. S. A., 1894, leaving any Port of the Colony, be provided with officers 8.92.)
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 sento :---
(a) In any case with a duly certifiented master;
(.) If the ship is of one hundred tons or upwards, with at least one officer besides the master holding a cer- tificate not lower than that of ouly mate, or, of mate of a river steamer, in the ease of river steamers; (e.) If the ship carries more than one mate, with at
least the first and second mate duly certificated; (d.) If the ship is a steam-ship 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 certificatod ; (e.) If the ship is a steun-ship of less than que loundred nomiual horse-power, with at least que engineer who is a first-class or second-class engines duly certificated. Sub-section (2) is remodelled upon the lines of section 92 of the English Act of
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With regard to the following marginal query by the Board of Trade on sub-section (2) of section 4 of Ordinance 36 of 1899: Should not river steamers be referred to---- see definition clause and 2 (6) of this clause and clause 10 (1) (d)," the Marbour Haster states:--
"I do not think river steamers need be specially referred to. If such a steamer was not a "British or Colonial ship exceeding 60 tons" she would be a Foreign ship having a passenger certificate under section 10, and in that case the officers' certificates must be in accordance with the law-see 10, 8 (a) ii., and 10, 8 (b) vi."
4 (2)--I do not think that the criticism as to river steamers need be insisted upon hut
as Section 10 (1) mentions river steamers in addition to British Colonial and foreign ships exceeding 60 tons, it seems as if such steamers should have been specifically mentioned in 4 (2). Otherwise it would seem to be superfluous to refer to r ver steamers in Section 10 (1d) and if the special Licenses provided in Section 38 are practically compulsory the provisions of Section 10, so far as they relate to river steamers, must be read in conjunction with the provisions in Section 38.
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