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Certificate

PART I.

REGISTRATION AND LICENSING of Ships,

3. (1) Every ship trading in or from the waters of the required by Colony must be provided with-

or licence

all ships

trading in Colony.

Master, mate and engineer

certificate.

(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 a

licence under section 94.

(2) Every register or certificate authorized or required by this section, may be proved either by the production of the original, or by a copy thereof purporting to be certified under the hand of the Registrar of Shipping, or Registrar of British ships appointed to act in the Colony under the Merchant Shipping Acts, 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 shall be prescribed by regulations. Every document when so proved shall be received as prima facie evidence of all matters therein recited, stated or appearing,

PART IT.

COMPETENCY of Masters AND CREW AND CERTIFICATEs Thereof.

4. (1) The name of a master, first or second mate, or first or second engineer shall not be attached to the register or articles

to possess of agreement of any British ship, unless such master, mate, or engineer possesses a certificate of service or competency granted in the United Kingdom under the Merchant Shipping Acts, or a colonial certificate of competency declared by any Order of Her Majesty in Council to be of the same force as if it had been granted under the said Acts.

(2) Every officer on board a foreign passenger steamship who has received a certificate of competency granted by a com- petent authority of his country, which the Governor is satisfied is of corresponding value to any certificate of competency granted under this Ordinance, shall be deemed to be duly certificated

under this Ordinance in respect of such foreign steamship, pro- vided that his certificate is of a grade appropriate to his station in the foreign steamship or of a higher grade.

certificated

5. (1) Every British ship, and every foreign ship holding Scale of a passenger certificate under Part VI shall, when leaving any offers to port of the Colony, be provided with officers who possess certi- be provided, ficates of competency of a grade appropriate to their stations in Act, the ship or of a higher grade, according to the following scale-

(a) in any case, with a duly certificated master ;

(b) if the ship is of one hundred tons of upwards, with at least one officer besides the master holding a certificate not lower than that of first mate, or of second mate in the case of a sailing ship of not more than two hundred tons;

(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 horsepower, with at least one engineer who is a first-class or second-class engineer duly certificated: Provided that every British river steamer exceeding sixty tons but not exceeding three hundred tons, if such river steamer does not carry more than twelve passengers, shall be provided with a duly certificated master and an engineer who possesses at least a local certificate of competency from the Director: I'rovided further that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to grant special exemption; which may be subject to any conditions he may impose, from all or any of the requirements of this subsection in the case of any ship regularly plying between the Colony and Dosing, Swabue (Shan Mei), Ping Hoi, Ma Kung, Sha Yu Chung, Nam O, Tip Fuk, O Tau or any other por if the master and mate shall have passed a special examination before the Director and shall be approved by him for service on such voyages.

[473)

A.92,

(a) Every British river steamer not exceeding sixty tons and every ferry vessel as defined in Part XIII shall comply with the prescribed regulations, and shall be provided with a master who Regula- possesses a local certificate of competency from the Director and tons also with an engineer who possesses a like certificate. [4/6), (7)

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