Thuneemch Schedule
(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-
(a) three identical photographs of passport size
of the applicant; and
(b) the prescribed fee (if any).
(3) A local certificate of competency as master or engineer shall not be issued-
(a) in relation to a fishing vessel, to a person who is under eighteen years of age; or
(b) in relation to any other vessel, to a person who is under twenty-one years of age.
(4) A local certificate of competency as master or engineer shall not be issued to any person in rela- tion to a vessel, other than a fishing vessel, unless that person has served in the manner provided by paragraph (5) on a vessel equipped with mechanical means of propulsion for not less than three years.
(5) For the purpose of paragraph (4) an applicant for examination for a local certificate of competency-
(a) as a master, shall have served as a deck
hand; and
(b) as an engineer, shall have served in such capacity in relation to the machinery as the Director considers likely to provide adequate practical mechanical experience.
(6) Before issuing a local certificate of com- petency as master or engineer the Director may require the applicant therefor to satisfy him by examination in such other manner, and in such other subjects or matters, as the Director may determine, as to his competency to be a master or engineer, as the case may be.
(7) A local certificate of competency as master or engineer shall be issued in the appropriate form prescribed in the Thirteenth Schedule:
Provided that the Director may modify the form of any local certificate of competency issued in rela tion to a fishing vessel in such manner as be may consider appropriate.
Loss, ele. of local certificates of com- petency.
Record of engagement and dis- charge of master and engineer.
Duty of master of engineer upon cogage
meat or discharge.
48C. (1) If the Director is satisfied that a local certificate of competency issued under regulation 48B has been lost, destroyed or defaced he may, upon payment of the appropriate prescribed fee (if any), issue a duplicate certificate.
(2) Any duplicate certificate issued under para- graph (1) shall be clearly endorsed in a conspicuous place with the word "Duplicate".
480. (1) The Director shall cause to be main- tained a register of masters and cagineers of vessels showing--
(a) the date of all engagements and discharges
of masters and engineers:
(6) the names of vessels in or from which they
were engaged or discharged;
(c) particulars of any complaint or charge laid
against any master or engineer; and
(d) the results of the investigation of any such
complaint or charge.
(2) The register shall be open to inspection by the owner of any vessel and any master or engineer, or the representative of any such person upon applica- tion to the Director.
48E. (1) Wherever the master or engineer of any vessel is engaged or discharged, he shall, not later than forty-eight hours after such engagement or dis- charge, produce his local certificate of competency for inspection by the appropriate officer of the Marine Department, or at the nearest office or station of the Marine Department and shall—
(a) give to such officer or the appropriate officer at such office or station of the Marine Department all such particulars relating to bis engagement or discharge as may be required for the purpose of registering the same under regulation 48D; and
(B) pay the appropriate prescribed fee (if any).
(2) Any master or engineer who fails to comply with any provision of paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars.