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THE MERCHANT SHIPPING ACTS.

thereof, as Her Majesty may think fit, and impose Colonial fines not exceeding £50 for the breach of those Certi- conditions and regulations.

ORDER IN COUNCIL, 9TH MAY, 1891, RECOGNISING CERTIFICATES OF COMPETENCY GRANTED IN HONGKONG AND IN OTHER COLONIES.

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AND WHEREAS by the Merchant Shipping Act, 1876, it is provided that Her Majesty may, by Order in Council, revoke, alter, or add to any Order in Council made by Her under the Merchant Shipping Acts :

AND WHEREAS by the Order in Council of the 19th day of August, 1889, Her Majesty was pleased to declare that, subject to certain exceptions, conditions, and regulations therein contained or set out in the schedule thereto, the Colonial Certificates granted as follows, viz. :—

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12. On and after the 1st January 1884, by the Governor of the Posses- sion of Hongkong, to persons intending to act as Masters, Mates, or Engineers on board British ships;

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AND WHEREAS it has been made to appear to Her Majesty that it is ex- pedient that the conditions and regulations set out in the said recited Orders in Council and the schedules thereto should be rescinded and the said recited Orders in Council revoked, and a new Order in Council containing such modified and amended conditions and regulations sub- stituted in lieu thereof:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty by and with the advice and consent of Her Privy Council, is hereby pleased--

(1) To declare that the colonial certificates of competency granted-

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(m) by the Governor of the Possession of Hongkong, from and after the 1st January, 1884, to persons intending to act as Masters, Mates, or Engineers on board British ships;

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(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 chant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862, 21 * as requires, at the conclusion of a case relating to the cancelling or suspending of a cer- tificate, such certificate, if cancelled or suspended, to be forwarded to (4).] the Board of Trade, and the whole of the provisions of the 4th sub-section of the same section, *

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