(6) No candidate shall be admitted to examination for or be granted a certificate of competency unless he possesses a valid first aid certificate issued by one of the authorities specified ja the First Schedule.
(c) No candidate shall be admitted to examination for or be granted a certificate of competency unless he has passed the appropriate sight test specified in the Fifth Schedule.
THIRD SCHEDULE.
OTHER EXAMINATIONS AND QUALIFICATIONS THEREFOR
1.
Voluntary Examination in Compass Deviantçım.
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Any applicant who holds a foreign-going certificate of competency of any grade may undertake a voluntary examination in compass deviation. If the candidate passes the examination, his certificate of compétency may be endorsed to that effect. In order to pass he must obtain seventy per cent of the aggregate marks. The syllabus of examination will be based on that of the Magnetism and Electricity paper of the Ministry of Transport Examination for Extra Master.
2. Poluntary Examination in Signalling.
Any applicant who holds, or has passed an examination for, or is 4 candidate for, a certificate of corapetency of any grade may undertake a voluntary examination in signalling.
No fee will be charged for this examination if it is taken when a candidate is also examined for a certificate of competency.
3.
Certificate for Maintenance of Radur Equipment on Merchant Ships. Any applicant who wishes to obtain a certificate that he has passed an examination in the maintenance of Radar equipment on board merchant ship! may undertake a voluntary examination therefor. No qualifying sea service it necessary.
4 Certificate of Efficiency as Lifeboatman.
Any applicant who is over eighteen years of age and free from physical or other disability which would render him unfit to perform the duties of a lifeboatman may undertake a voluntary examination for a certificate of cfficiency as lifeboatman.
The candidate must have had service at sea in any capacity on board a foreign-going merchant ship for a period of not less than six months.
Note: This cxamination can only be conducted provided there are sufficient candidates to form a reasonable boar's crew and proper facilities for conducling the examination are available. Only in exceptional cases can fewer than ten candidates be examined at any one time.
1.
FOURTH SCHEDULE.
PART 1.
RULES FOR ESTIMATING SEA SERVICE FOR FOREIGN-GOING CERTIFICATES OF COMPETENCY,
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Qualifying sea service, except as bereinafter provided, must be performed in the Deck Department.
2 For the purpose of this Schedule, sea service is reckoned from the commencement of the voyage to its termination.
3.
Certificates of discharge for service in the foreign trade will generally be accepted as proof of sea service, but certificates of discharge for service in a home or coasting trade will be sent for verification to the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen or other appropriate authority.
4. Where service in charge of a watch is required, ccrtificates of watch- keeping service must be produced.
5. For all certificates of competency as Master or Male of any grade in the Merchant Navy, the qualifying service usually required is service performed in ordinary trading vessels. While this Schedule provides for the acceptance in part of certain kinds of non-trading service (e.g. that performed in fishing-boats, yachts, pilot vessels, etc.), non-trading service not specially provided for herein cannot be accepted as qualifying service without special sanction from the Principal Examiner.
6. The nature of service is determined by the actual position on board ship-sea service, in whatever trade it may be performed, shall not be regarded as qualifying for examination for certificates of competency, unless it can be verified by reference to the articles of the ship in which it was performed. (For example, service claimed by testimonial or otherwise to have been as Mate when the actual rating as shown by the articles was that of Boatswain, will not bo nccepted where service as officer is required.)
Service in Foreign-going Vessels.
7. Watch-keeping service performed in a ship on foreign-going articles will be accepted in full if the vessel has proceeded outside home trade limits during the course of the voyage.
* Where a voyage has been made in the home trade limits as a preliminary to or at the finish of the foreign-going voyage, the home trade voyage shall be considered part of the foreign-going voyage for the purpose of calculating watch- beeping service in the case of officers who have served throughout
9.
Where the officer serves on the home trade voyage but does not serve no the foreign voyage, the home trade voyage shall be considered part of the foreign-going voyage for the purpose of calculating watch-keeping service, provided that the total allowance for such a voyage or voyages does not exceed an overall maximum of three months for First Mate or six months for Master.
Service with Added Responsibility,
10. Where watch-keeping service is required to be performed as equivalent to not lower than third of three watch-keeping officers in a foreign-going ship, voch service may be performed in the foreign, home or coasting trade.
Candidates for certificates of competency as Masters (foreign-going) whose watch-keeping service is performed in a higher capacity than second or third watch-keeping officer whilst holding a First Mate's certificate shall have such service reckoned-
(a) if as first watch-keeping officer next in seniority to the Master, al one
and one half times actual service;
(5) if as first watch-keeping officer not next in seniority to the Master, or as second of two watch-keeping officers, at one and one fifth times actual service.
Service in the United Kingdom Home and Coasting Trades.
II. The equivalent rates for service in the United Kingdom home or coasting trades for admission to examinations for certificates of competency (foreign-going) are as follows-
(a) service in home trade vessels of 1,600 tons gross and over shall count
in full;