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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 12, 1910.

(c.) Service within home trade limits in sailing yachts of 20 tons net register, or in steam yachts of 40 tons gross register, will be accepted towards qualifying a Candi- date for a Foreign-going Certificate as equivalent to half the same time served in the foreign trade, but no amount of such service shall count as more than two years' service in the foreign trade, and no such service shall count as Officer's service to qualify Candidates fòr Foreign-going Certificates.

(d) Service within home trade limits in sailing yachts of not less than 20 tons net register, or in steam yachts of not less than 40 tons gross register, will be accepted at the ordinary rate as qualifying service for home trade passenger ship Certificates, but Candidates must prove that they have in addition served for at least 12 months in an ordinary trading vessel in the foreign, home, or coasting trade.

(e.) Service within home trade limits in sailing yachts of less than 20 tons net register, or in steam yachts of less than 40 tons gross register, will not be accepted as qualifying service for any class of Certificate.

91. Service in lightships or in an engine room will not be accepted Service in as sea service.

lightships or engine room. Ibid. Sec.

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92. Service performed on rivers, no matter of what size, and Service on service performed within smooth or partially smooth water limits will Rivers, not be accepted.

Where any

doubt whatever exists on this point, the Candidate will be required to produce a certificate from the Master or Owner of the vessel in which the service was performed, before the service can be accepted.

Ibid. Suc. 126.

93. Half the time served on board a training ship will be allowed Service in to count as service at sea up to a limit of one year, (i.e., no length of training service will be allowed to count as more than one year at sea), provided. Sec. that the Candidate can produce a certificate from the Committee that 127. he has conducted himself creditably, and passed a good examination in seamanship, so far as it is practised in the training ship, as well as in other matters down to the time of his leaving the ship, but this service will not be regarded as equivalent to service in square-rigged vessels.

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94. The whole of the time claimed under indentures of apprentice- Apprentices. ship will be accepted as actual sea service to qualify under para. 31 for Ibid. Sec. a Second Mate's Certificate, provided (a) that the indentures have not been cancelled through some fault of the Candidate, but are endorsed by the Owner or Master to whom he was bound to the effect that he has performed his service faithfully during the time he remained as appren- tice; and (b) that the Candidate has served at sea four-fifths of the time claimed, that is to say, has not spent more than one-fifth of the time in home ports.

In cases where an appentice is qualified for examination before the expiration of his indentures, e.g., where he has had training ship or other sea service prior to being bound, which, together with his actual time as apprentice, makes up the required four years, or where his indentures are for a period of more than four years, a letter from the Owner or Master will be accepted instead of the endorsement referred to above.

In the event of the Candidate being short of the required four-fifths of the time claimed as apprentice out of the United Kingdom, he will be required to show sufficient additional sea service, either as seaman or junior officer, to make up the four-fifths of the time claimed.

Ibid. Sce.

95. The whole of the time served as midshipman or cadet under Midshipmen indentures will also be accepted subject to the same conditions as those and Cadets. laid down for apprentices; and the same will be the case even when not 129. bound by indentures, provided that the service as midshipman or cadet has been continuous, and that on the date of the termination of the period of service claimed in this capacity the Candidate was on Arti- cles of Agreement, and that he is able to comply with the requirements laid down in the matter of serving or making up the four-fifths period at sea during the time claimed.

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