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(18) No certificate shall be held to be in force for the purposes of [s. 10 this section beyond a period of 12 months from the date of its issue contd.] or any shorter time specified in the certificate; and no certificate certificate. shall be in force after notice is given by the Governor to the owner, agent, or master of the ship to which the same relates that he has cancelled or revoked the same: Provided that if any ship is absent from the Colony at the time when her certificate expires, no penalty shall be incurred under this section until she commences a voyage after her next subsequent return to the Colony. The Governor may require any certificate which has expired or has been revoked or cancelled to be delivered up as he directs, and any owner, agent, or master who, without reasonable cause, refuses or neglects to comply with such requirement shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 50 dollars.

(19) The Governor may revoke and cancel any such certificate in Governor any case in which he has reason to believe-

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(a) that the declarations of the sufficiency and good condition of and require. the hull, equipments, and machinery of the ship have been fraudu- declarations. lently or erroneously made; or

(b) that such certificate has otherwise been issued upon false or erroneous information; or

(c) that, since the making of such declarations, the hull, equip- ments, or machinery of the ship has or have sustained any injury or is or are otherwise insufficient;

and in every such case the Governor may require the owner to have the hull, equipments, or machinery of the ship again surveyed, and to transmit a further declaration or declarations of the sufficiency and good condition thereof, before re-issuing any certificate or granting a fresh one in lieu thereof.

Certificate to be placed in conspicuous

(20) The owner, agent, or master of every such ship shall forth- with, on the transmission of any such certificate as aforesaid to him or his agent, cause one of the duplicates thereof so transmitted to part of ship. be put up in some conspicuous part of the ship, so as to be visible to all persons on board the same, and shall cause it to bo continued so put up so long as such certificate remains in force and such ship is in use; and in default such owner, agent, or master shall for every offence be liable to a fine not exceeding 50 dollars.

(21) The said surveyor or surveyors shall from time to time make Surveyors to such returns to the Governor as he may require with respect to the make returns build, dimensions, draught, burden, rate of sailing, room for fuel, and other

of build