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Ord. No. 36/86
Amendment of section 30.
Amendment of section 31.
Amendment of section 32.
Amendment of section 33.
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(j) the requirements to be satisfied for the grant of a lo
certificate of competency under subsection (4);
(k) the recognition of certificates of competency issued by the Director under any enactment or by the appropriate author- ity of another country as equivalent, for all purposes or for purposes specified by the Director, to local certificates of competency required to be held by any person under this Part; (1) the issue of a copy of any local certificate of competency
which has been lost, destroyed, damaged or defaced; (m) the surrender of local certificates of competency upon their
expiry or replacement;
(n) fees and forms, in relation to examinations conducted under subsection (1), the issue of local certificates of competency and recognition of certificates of competency as equivalent to local certificates of competency;
(0) generally, provisions in respect of local certificates of
competency.";
(c) by deleting subsection (4) and substituting the following-
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"(4) The Director may grant a local certificate of competency as a master or deck or engineering crew to a person without requiring him to undergo the appropriate examination prescribed in the rules made under subsection (2), if the person produces to the Director suitable documentary evidence, or satisfies the Director in a manner prescribed in the rules, of his competence for the grant of such a certificate.
(5) Without prejudice to subsection (4), the Director may exempt a person from undergoing any part of the appropriate examination for the grant of a local certificate of competency prescribed in the rules made under subsection (2), if the person satisfies the Director in a manner prescribed in the rules that he is qualified for such exemption.
(6) Rules made under subsection (2) may direct that no local certificate of competency shall be granted to any person unless—
(a) he has reached such minimum age as may be prescribed; and (b) he has obtained such experience or performed such service on
such type of vessel as may be prescribed.
(7) Rules made under subsection (2) may direct that a local certificate of competency shall expire upon the holder's attaining such age as may be prescribed but that it may thereafter be extended for such periods and in such manner as may be prescribed.".
Section 30 of the principal Ordinance is amended in subsection (1) by inserting before "certificate of competency" the following-
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"local".
Section 31 of the principal Ordinance is amended by inserting before "certificate" wherever it appears the following-
"local".
6. Section 32 of the principal Ordinance is amended by inserting before "certificate" where it first appears the following—
"local".
7. Section 33 of the principal Ordinance is amended in subsection (1)(j) by deleting "certificates of competency" and substituting the following—
"local certificates of competency or certificates of competency recognized as equivalent to local certificates of competency by rules made under this Part".
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8. (1) Section 50A of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance is amended by Consequential erting before "certificate" where it thirdly appears the following---
"local".
amendments. (Cap. 281.)
(2) The Merchant Shipping (Certification of Officers) Regulations are (Cap. 281. amended-
sub. leg.)
(a) in regulation 9(2)(a) by inserting before "certificate" the following-
"local";
(b) in regulation 10(3)(a) by inserting before "certificate" the following-
"local".
Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 2nd day of July 1986.
LAW Kam-sang,
Clerk to the Legislative Council.
This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.
LAW Kam-sang, Clerk to the Legislative Council.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.