Licences to
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PART VI.
LICENSING AND CONTROL OF CREW DEPARTMENTS.
47, (1) Save as provided in section 50, the Authority shall, on maintain crew payment of a fee of five hundred dollars, grant a licence to maintain a
crew department to any company-
departments.
Application for grant or renewal of licence.
Authority may require Company applying for grant of renewal of licence to foroth additional information.
(a) whose objects as set forth in the company's memorandum of association include the carrying on of the business of shipowner or the business of managing ships or the business of acting as agent for a shipowner: and
(b) which has been carrying on such a business at all times during the period of three years immediately preceding the application for such licence.
(2) Every licence granted under this section shall be valid for twelve months and, save as provided in section 50, shall, on payment of a fee of five hundred dollars, be renewed for a period of twelve months at any one time.
(3) Upon the grant or renewal of a licence under this section, the Authority may impose upon the licensed company such conditions as be thinks fit.
48. (0) An application for the grant or renewal of a licence under section 47 shall
(a) be in the prescribed form and contain the particulars required
thereby:
(b) be accompanied by such particulars, in the prescribed form, in relation to cach person employed or to be employed in the crew department as may be required by such form; and
(c) be accompanied by such other particulars, in the prescribed
form, as may be required by such form.
(2) An application for the renewal of a licence under section 47 shall be made not less than three months before the expiry of the licence.
49. In addition to the particulars supplied in accordance with sub- section (1) of section 48, the Authority may require a company applying for the grant or renewal of a licence under section 47 to furnish to him such information as he may specify, being information that is required for the purposes of, or in connexion with, the exercise by the Authority of the powers vested in him by section 50.
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50. (1) The Authority, after consultation with the Advisory Board, Grounds on may refuse to grant or renew a licence under section 47—
(a) if the application therefor is not made in accordance with
section 48;
(b) if he is satisfied that any of the particulars set forth in the application therefor, or any of the particulars accompanying such application in accordance with subsection (1) of section 48, is false in a material particular;
(c) if the company applying for the grant or renewal of the licence refuses or fails to furnish him with any information required to be furnished under section 49 or furnishes any such informa- tion which is false in a material particular:
(d) unless he is satisfied that--
(i) the number of posts for which the crew department sup- plies or will supply seamen is not or will not be less than two hundred;
(ii) the person who is specified in the application therefor as the person who is or will be in charge of the crew depart- ment is a fit and proper person to be in charge thereof and every other person who is or will be employed in the crew deportment is a fit and proper person to be employed therein: (ii) the staff of the crew department, the salary or wages paid to each member of such staff and the accommodation provided for the use of the crew department, together with the facilities available therein, are suitable and adequate:
(iv) suitable and adequate facilities and staff are or will be provided by the company applying for the grant or renewal of the licence for dealing with such allotments or remittances as may be made by seamen supplied by the crew department for service in foreign-going ships; and
(v) the terms on which seamen are engaged for service in all foreign-going ships for service in which the crew department supplies or will supply seamen are such as to induce seamen to continue to serve in such ships;
(e) if any person who is or has been an officer or other employee of the company applying for the grant or renewal of the licence, or any person who, notwithstanding that he is not or was uot an officer or other employee of such company, controls, directs or manages or has controlled, directed or managed, or takes or has taken any part in the management of, the business of such company, has at any time—
(i) owned, either wholly or together with other persons, or managed, or taken any part in the management of, any board-
which grant
or renewal of licence ty be refused.
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