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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 21, 1913.

Ambulance

Certificates

ment Awards.

retired from the Royal Navy or who are on half-pay must be made

to the Secretary of the Admiralty, who in either case will forward the application to the Board of Trade.

Ambulance Certificates and Government Awards.

85. An officer in the Mercantile Marine who holds a certificate and Govern of proficiency in First Aid to the Injured from the St. John or St. Andrew's Ambulance Association or some equivalent certificate, can have the fact endorsed, on his Board of Trade certificate of competency, provided the latter was issued before April 1st, 1908, if the two certificates are forwarded to the Registrar-General of Shipping and Seamen, either directly or through the Superinten- dent of a Mercantile Marine Office.

Recipients of Government awards can also have the fact stamped on their certificates of competency, if they submit evidence of the award together with their certificate in a similar

manner.

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CHAPTER III.

Sea service.

Sea service for Foreign. going Certi- ficates.

Officer's

services.

Home Trade.

Service in Home Trade.

Certificate, meaning of.

Rules for Estimating Sea Service.

86. In these Regulations sea service is reckoned from the com- mencement to the termination of the voyage. The certificates of discharge for service in the foreign trade will generally be accepted as proof of sea service, but certificates of discharge for service in the home or coasting trade will require additional verification. Superintendents and examiners will be careful to see that these discharges have not been in any way tampered with, and will report any suspicious cases to the Registrar-General of Seamen.

87. For all certificates of competency as Master or Mate in the Mercantile Marine, the qualifying service usually required is service performed in ordinary trading vessels. While the Regula- tions provide for the acceptance in part of certain kinds of non-trading service (e.g., that performed in fishing-boats, yachts, pilot vessels, &c.), non-trading service not specially provided for in the Regulations cannot be accepted as qualifying service unless it has been submitted to the Board of Trade and their sanction obtained.

88. For Foreign-going Certificates the term

sea service means, unless otherwise stated, service performed in foreign-going vessels.

89. Service in a lower grade than First or Only Mate in the home or coasting trade will not be recognized as officer's service towards qualifying a candidate for examination for a foreign going certificate.

90. For River Steamer Certificates service in the home or coasting trade is regarded as equivalent to service in the foreign trade, but for Foreign-going Certificates it is regarded as only equivalent to two-thirds of the time served in foreign trade.

91. By the word "Certificate" is meant a Certificate of Competency granted by the Board of Trade under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, or by the Government of a British Possession under an Order in Council issued in pursuance of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.