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and terry vessels to carry certificated masters and engineers.
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of the maximum number of persons permissible in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (1), such lesser number as the surveyor may direct shall be inserted in the certificate of survey,
16. (1) The owner of any launch or ferry vessel shall apply for such launch or ferry vessel to be surveyed yearly or at such lesser intervals as may be ordered by the Director in any particular case,
(2) If upon any survey required by the provisions of paragraph (1), the surveyor is satisfied as to the fitness in all respects of the launch or ferry vessel in question he shall issue a certificate of survey accordingly.
(3) If upon any survey required by the provisions of paragraph (1), the surveyor is not satisfied that the launch or ferry vessel in question is fit in all respect, be shall declare to the owner thereof his requirements to render such launch or ferry vessel fit and shall until such requirements are satisfied withhold the issue of a certificate of survey.
(4) If any certificate of survey is withheld under the provisions of paragraph (3), any licence or permit issued under Part II of these regulations in respect of the launch or ferry vessel in question shall be deemed suspended pending the issue of the certificate of survey:
Provided that the Director may in his discretion and subject to such conditions or restrictions as he may think fit, and upon payment of the prescribed fee, issue, in lieu of a certificate of survey, a permit to ply pending the issue of such a certificate.
(5) The owner of any launch or ferry vessel who fails to comply with the provisions of paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of four thousand dollars and imprisonment for six months.
PART IV.
LOCAL CERTIFICATES OF COMPETENCY.
17. (1) No launch or ferry vessel shall be under way in the waters of the Colony unless there is on board and in charge thereof a person who is the holder of an appropriate and valid local certificate of competency as master and in addition thereto a person in charge of the machinery who is the holder of an appropriate and valid local certificate of competency as engineer;
Provided that—
(a) where a Government surveyor, having regard to the size and speed of the vessel and the power of the machinery and loca tion of the controls, certifies that such vessel can be properly controlled by one person it shall be sufficient for the purposes
of this regulation if the person in charge of the vessel is the holder of both a valid local certificate of competency as master and also a valid certificate of competency as engineer; and
(b) in the case of a pleasure launch, it shall be sufficient if the local certificate of competency is a modified certificate issued pursuant to the provisions of regulation 19.
(2) Any person while in charge of any launch or ferry vessel and any person while in charge of the machinery thereof shall carry with bim in the vessel his local certificates of competency.
(3) If any of the provisions of this regulation are contravened, the owner of the launch or ferry vessel in question, whether he was on board such launch or ferry vessel at the material time or not, and the person having charge of such launch or ferry vessel at the material time shall each be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars.
18 (1) Subject to the provisions of this regulation the Director Issue of local shall issue local certificates of competency upon application being made certificates of therefor.
(2) Every application for a local certificate of competency as master or engineer shall be made on a form to be obtained from the Marine Department and shall be accompanied by-
(4) three photographs of the applicant; and
(b) the prescribed fee (if any).
(3) No local certificate of competency as master or as engineer shall be issued unless the applicant therefor-
(4) satisfies the Director as to his competency by examination or such other manner and in respect of such subjects or other matters as the Director may require:
(b) is not less than twenty-one years of age; and
(c) has served in a launch or ferry vessel for not less than three
years-
in the case of an applicant for examination for a local certificate of competency as master, in a deck capacity; and
(ii) in the case of an applicant for examination for a local certificate of competency as an engineer, in such capacity in relation to the machinery as the Director considers likely to provide adequate practical mechanical experience: Provided that in the case of any applicant for examination for local certificate of competency for use only in relation to pleasure launches, the age shall be not less than eighteen years and no period of service in launches or ferry vessels shall be required.
competency.