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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 31ST OCTOBER, 1891.

(0) by the Governor of the Possession of the Straits Settlements, from and after the 1st day of June, 1890, to persons intending to act as Masters, First Mates, and Second Mates of sea-going British Ships;

(p.) by the Governor of the Possession of Mauritius, from and after the 1st day of January, 1891, to persons intending to act as Masters, First Mates, and Second Mates of sea-going British ships,

shall be of the same force as if they had been granted under the said Acts:

2. To declare that all the provisions of the said Acts which relate to Certificates of Competency

for the foreign trade granted under those Acts, except-

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So much of the third sub-section of the 23rd section of "The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862," as requires, at the conclusion of a case relating to the cancelling or suspending of a certificate, such certificate, if cancelled or suspended, to be forwarded to the Board of Trade; and the whole of the provisions of the fourth sub- section of the same section,

shall apply to such Colonial Certificates of Competency as are in paragraph 1 of this Order referred to; provided, however, that in the case of New Zealand, the foregoing exceptions shall not interfere with or suspend the operation of an Act of the Legislature of New Zealand, intituled "The Merchant Shipping Act Adoption Act, 1869" (32 & 33 Vict., No. 5); and provided that section 139 of "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," and section 10 of "The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act. 1862," shall, for the purpose of their application to such Certificates of Competency as aforesaid, be construed as not referring to the Board of Trade, but as referring to the authority mentioned in the interpretation clause of Schedule A. to this Order, which granted the Certificate which has been lost or is to be replaced: 3. To impose and make the regulations set out in the Schedule A. hereto, numbered 1 to 12 respectively, with respect to the said Colonial Certificates of Competency, and to the use, issue, delivery, cancellation, and suspension thereof, and to impose for the breach of such regulations the penalties therein mentioned:

4. To revoke the conditions and regulations, set out in the Schedules to the said recited Orders in Council, and to substitute therefor the regulations set out in the Schedule A. hereto, numbered 1 to 12 respectively, and to declare that, from and after the time when this Order takes effect, the regulations set out in the Schedule A. hereto shall apply to all Colonial Certificates that may heretofore have been or shall be hereafter granted as aforesaid :

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5. To declare that this Order shall take effect in the said Possessions respectively which are enumerated in the Schedule B. hereto, immediately from and after the publication of this Order in such Possessions respectively, and that all Certificates gran Possessions subsequently to the dates named in the Schedule B. and before this Order comes into force shall have the same effect, and be of the same value, and confer the same privileges on the holders thereof as if granted after this present Order.

6. To direct that the said herein before recited Orders in Council shall be revoked in each of the said Possessions on the day on which this Order takes effect therein as provided in the preceding paragraph (5) hereof: provided, however, that the revocation of the said Orders in Council shall not affect or invalidate any Colonial Certificate of Competency previously granted to which the said Orders in Council apply, or affect the validity or invalidity of anything done under the said Orders in Council before this Order takes effect or any obligation heretofore incurred.

7. A copy of this Order shall forthwith, after the publication thereof in the London Gazette, be forwarded to the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Administrator, or Head of the Government of each the said enumerated Possessions, who shall, immediately upon the receipt of such copy, publish this Order, and the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the Secretary of State for India in Council are hereby required to take order in that behalf.

C. L. PEEL.

SCHEDULE A.

REGULATIONS with respect to the use, issue, delivery, carcellation, and suspension of COLONIAL CERTIFICATES of COMPETENCY.

Interpretation clause.

In the construction and for the purposes of these regulations, the following terms shall have the respective meanings hereinafter assigned to them, that is to say:-

"Colonial Certificate of Competency” “Colonial Certificate" shall mean a Certificate of Competency granted under the authority of the Legislature or Legislative authority of one of the British Possessions in Schedule B. hereto men- tioned, to Persons intending to act or acting as Masters, Mates, or Engineers of British ships.