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No. 10 of 1899.
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
No. 10 of 1899.
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Certificate or lirence
required by ship in waters of the Colony.
Proof of register, etc.
$
Consent to prosecution.
Master,
mate and
engineer
to possess
certificates.
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PART I.
REGISTRY.
3.-(1) Every ship trading in or from the waters of the Colony must be provided with-
(a) a certificate of registry in conformity with the Merchant Shipping Acts; or
(b) a certificate of foreign registry or other document similar or equivalent to that required in the case of a British ship; or
(c) in the case of a steamship not exceeding sixty tons or a motor boat, a licence under section 37.
(2) Every register or certificate, authorized or required by this section, may be proved in any court or before any person having by law or by consent of parties authority to receive evidence, either by the production of the original, or by an examined copy thereof, or by a copy thereof purporting to be certified under the hand of the Registrar of Shipping, or other person who may happen to have charge of the original, which certified copy he is hereby required to furnish to every person applying at a reasonable time for the same, and paying therefor such fee as the Governor in Council shall prescribe; and every document when so proved shall be received as primâ facie evidence of all matters therein recited, stated or appearing.
(3) No prosecution shall be instituted under this section except under the fial of the Attorney General.
PART II.
MASTERS AND SEAMEN.
Certificates of competency.
4. (1) The name of a master, first, only, or second mate, or first or second engineer shall not be attached to the register or articles of agreement of any British ship, unless such master,
As amended by No. 23 of 1932 [10.12.32] and Law Rev. Ord., 1937. For appointment of Harbour Master to be Registrar of British ships
see G.N. No. 317 of 27.5.1927.
As amended by No. 11 of 1931 [11.9.311, No. 28 of 1933 [22.12.33], No
28 of 1935 [1.7.35] and Law Rev. Ord., 1937.
mate or engineer possesses a certificate of service or competency [ef. Orders in Council, granted in the United Kingdom under the Merchant Shipping 9th May, Acts, or a colonial certificate of competency declared by any 1891, and Order of His Majesty in Council to be of the same force as if ber, 1906.] it had been granted under the said Acts.
22nd Octo-
(1A) Every officer on board a foreign passenger steamship Recognition who has received a certificate of competency granted by a com-
of foreign certificates petent authority of his country, which the Governor is satisfied of com- is of corresponding value to any certificate of competency correspond petency of
granted under this Ordinance, shall be deemed to be duly ing value to certificated under this Ordinance in respect of such foreign steam- granted ship, provided that his certificate is of a grade appropriate to his under this station in the foreign steamship or of a higher grade.
certificate
Ordinance.
officers of
(2) Every British ship, and every foreign ship holding a Certificated passenger certificate under section 10 shall, when leaving any British ship port of the Colony, be provided with officers who possess and foreign certificates of competency of a grade appropriate to their stations ship holding in the ship or of a higher grade, according to the following certificate. scale :-
Vict. c. 60, s. 92 (1).]
(a) in any case, with a duly certificated master;
(b) if the ship is of one hundred 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 two hundred 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 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 certificated; and
(e) if the ship is a steamship of less than one hundred nominal horse-power, with at least one engineer who is a first class or second class engineer duly certificated :
passenger
[cf. 57 & 58
Provided that every British river steamer exceeding sixty British river tons but not exceeding three hundred tons, if such river steamer
steamers not
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