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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 12, 1910.
Failure for
Ibid. Sec. 20.
No part, however, of the fee he has paid will be returned to him, and on presenting himself, when qualified, for re-examination for the higher Certificate, he will be required to pay a further full fee.
18. If a Candidate fails for bad spelling or writing, he will not be spelling. &c. re-examined until after a lapse of at least three months. If he fails for ignorance of the English language, he will not be re-examined until after the lapse of six months.
Failure in
17. If a Candidate fails in Seamanship so far as regards the Seamanship management of square rigged sailing vessels, in his examination for an abridged.
Ordinary Certificate, he may, if qualified as to service, without further formal application or further payment of fee, proceed with the examina- tion for a Certificate of Competency for Foreign-going Steamships, or for fore and aft rigged vessels.
Fee always paid first.
Ibid. Sec. 22.
Where to
pay fees.
Thill. Sea, 23.
Fees not returned on failure.
Ibid. Sec. 24.
Fecs.
13. ('andidates for examination, in making their application on form Exn. 2 will be required to pay the examination fee before any step is taken in the way of inquiring into their services or testing their qualifications. If the Candidate is found not to be qualified the fee will be returned.
19. The fee for examination must be paid to the Officer deputed for that purpose by the Harbour Master, in the Harbour Office.
If a Candidate offers a gratuity to any Officer of the Department, he will be regarded as having committed an act of misconduct, and will be rejected, and not allowed to be again examined for twelve months, either at the Port where the offence was committed, or at any other Port.
20. If a Candidate fails to pass the examination, no part of the foo will be returned to him.
21. The fees are as follows :-
For Foreign-going Ships.
Second Mate, First or Only Mate,
$15.00
15.00
Master.
20.00
For River Steamers.
First aid to
Mate. Master.
$15.00
20.00
Voluntary examination in Semaphore and Morse Signalling, $10. Note 1.----No abatement will be made to the fee charged to a Candidate in e nsequence of his possessing a Certificate of a lower grude.
Note 2.-The same fee will be charged, after failure, on each occa- sion a Candidate presents himself for re-examination.
22.--(1.) Every Candidate for a Certificate of Competency of any the injured, grade will be required to produce a Certificate from the St. John Dad. Sec. 26. Ambulance Association, the St. Andrew's Ambulanco Association or the London County Council to the effect that he has passed an examina- tion in First Aid to the Injured.
(2.) The Certificate must be an adult Certificate, Le.. obtained by the Candidate when sixteen years of age or more, and the examination for it must have been passed not more than three years before the date of the examination for the Certificate of Competency.
(3.) If a Candidate does not possess such a Certificate of proficiency in First Aid he should apply some time before he wishes to sit for examination for a Certificate as Master or Mate to the local secretary of the St. John or St. Andrew's Ambulance Association, who will inform him of the available facilities for the instruction and examina- tion of Candidates in First Aid. A list of the names and addresses of the local secretaries of the Associations is given in Appendix C, page 60 in BT Regulations.
(4.) Besides the courses of instruction which are provided on shore at the ports in the United Kingdom, at which examinations for Certificates as Master and Mate are held, courses of instruction given by qualified surgeons on board merchant vessels will be accepted by the St. John Ambulance Association as qualifying the Candidate for examination for their Certificate of proficiency in First Aid, provided the surgeon certifies that he has followed the syllabus of instruction laid down by the Association.
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