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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 31ST OCTOBER, 1891.
(4.) In all cases in which the powers given by this regulation are exercised, a report of the case shall be sent by the Governor or person administering the Possession in which the powers are exercised to the authority by whom the cancelled or suspended Certificate was granted.
Certificates improperly granted may be cancelled without formal investigation.
8. A Colonial Certificate of Competency which appears from information subsequently acquired, or otherwise, to have been improperly granted, may (without any formal investigation under "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," or the Acts amending the same) be cancelled by the authority by which the same was granted, or by the Board of Trade in the United Kingdom, and the holder of such certificate shall thereupon deliver it to the Board of Trade or such authority, or as they or either of them may direct, and in default thereof shall incur a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds, which shall be recoverable in the manner in which penalties imposed by the Acts relating to Merchant Shipping are thereby made recoverable, or in such other summary proceedings as the law of any British Possession where the holder may be, may allow or permit to be brought for the recovery thereof.
Cancellation, &e, of a Certificate shall involve cancellation of all the other Certificates possessed by its Owner.
9. Every decision with respect to the cancellation or suspension of a certificate pronounced by any board, court, or tribunal under the provisions of the said Acts, shall, unless otherwise directed, extend equally to all tite Colonial Certificates at the time possessed by the person in respect of whom the decision is made.
Certificates believed to be fraudulent may be demanded.
10. Any Officer of the Board of Trade, or the Registrar-General of Seamen, or any of his Officers, or a Superintendent of a Mercantile Marine Office, or a Consular Officer, or duly appointed Shipping Officer in a British Possession, may demand the delivery to him of any Colonial Certificate of Competency which he has reason to believe has been improperly issued, or is forged, altered, cancelled, or suspended, or to which the person using it is not justly entitled, and may detain such Certificate for a reasonable period for the purpose of making inquiries respecting such issue, forgery, alteration, cancellation, suspension, or possession, and auy person who, without reasonable cause, neglects or refuses to comply with such demand shall incur a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds or its equivalent in local currency, which shall be recoverable in the manner in which penalties imposed by the Acts relating to Merchant Shipping are thereby made recoverable, or in such other summary proceedings as the law of any British Possession where such person may be, may allow or permit to be brought for the recovery thereof.
Suspended Certificates to be re-issued only by Colony by which originally granted.
11. Subject to these Regulations, a Colonial Certificate of Competency which has, from any cause, been cancelled or suspended, shall be renewed or re-issued only by the authority by which the same was originally granted.
Colonial Certificates, when cancelled or suspended, to be sent to the Authority which granted them.
12. Whenever a Colonial Certificate is cancelled or suspended the Board, Court, or Tribunal cancelling or suspending the same shall send to the Authority by whom the Certificate was granted a full report upon the case together with a copy of the evidence taken therein, and also the Certificate which has been cancelled or suspended.
POSSESSION.
SCHEDULE B.
NATURE OF CERTIFICATE.
DATE.
CANADA,
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
TASMANIA
BENGAL
MALTA, AND ITS DEPENDENCIES,
VICTORIA,
NEW ZEALAND,
NEW SOUTH WALES,
Masters and Mates
19th August 1871.
First Class Engineers, and Second Class Engineers
Masters, Mates, and Engineers
1st January 1887.
Masters, Mates, and Engineers ........
Masters, Mates, and Engineers
Masters, First Mates, or Second Mates, and First Class
Engineers, or Second Class Engineers
Masters, First Mates, Only Mates, or Second Mates, and First
Class Engineers, or Second Class Engineers
Masters, Mates, and Engineers
Masters, Mates, and Engineers
12th May 1874.
4th January 1870.
1st May 1872.
18th June 1872.
12th May 1874.
1st April 1876.
27th June 1876.
NEWFOUNDLAND
Masters and Mates
14th May 1877.
BOMBAY
Masters, Mates, and Engineers
QUEENSLAND
Masters, Mates, and Engineers
HONG KONG
Masters, Mates, and Engineers
11th July 1877.
1st October 1877.
1st January 1884.
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS..
First Class Engineers, and Second Class Engineers................
1st August 1888.
Masters, First Mates, and Second Mates
MAURITIUS
Masters, First Mates, and Second Mates
1st June 1890.
1st January 1891.
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