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Certain exemptions.
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(b) fraudulently uses a certificate or copy of a certificate of competency which has been forged, altered, cancelled or suspended or to which he is not entitled; or
(c) fraudulently lends his certificate of competency or allows it
to be used by any other person,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $50,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years. (Amended, 17 of 1965, s. 5 and 73 of 1974, s. 12)
(2) In this section, "certificate of competency" means a certificate of competency or of service other than one issued under the regulations made under section 6A. (Added, 62 of 1981, s. 7)
(3) Where a person is convicted of an offence under subsection (1) or of a conspiracy to commit such an offence or of a conspiracy to defraud in relation to a certificate of competency, the Director may cancel, or suspend for any period, the certificate of competency held by such person. (Added, 62 of 1981, s. 7)
8. Nothing in the previous sections or in any other enactment shall be deemed to prevent the employment, as master or officer of any grade in a British ship, of the subject of any such foreign state as may be specified by the Governor in Council, if the Governor shall have granted such person a written authority to act in such capacity.
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9. (1) The Governor may appoint a place to be called the Mercantile Marine Office, at which place shall be conducted all the business within the Colony connected with the engagement and discharge of seaman on board British ships and foreign ships whose flag is not represented by a consular officer resident in the Colony, such ships being in the waters of the Colony. The Director shall be the Superintendent of the Mercantile Marine Office.
(2) No seaman shall, except with the sanction of the Director, be engaged to do duty on board a British ship, or any foreign ship whose flag is not represented by a consular officer resident in the Hong Kong Colony, elsewhere than at the Mercantile Marine Office. The Superintendent shall require the production of a certificate of discharge from such seaman's last ship, and failing production such seaman shall be bound to give a satisfactory explanation to the Director of the cause of such non-production.
Agreement to be made with
seamen.
[cf. pr. Act, s. 113.]
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10. (1) The master of every British ship, and of every foreign ship whose flag is not represented by a consular officer resident in the Colony, shall enter into an agreement with every seaman whom he engages in the Colony and carries to sea as one of his crew, in the form and manner provided by the Merchant Shipping Acts:
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(b) fraudulently uses a certificate or copy of a certificate of competency which has been forged, altered, cancelled or suspended or to which he is not entitled; or
(c) fraudulently lends his certificate of competency or allows it
to be used by any other person,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $50,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years. (Amended, 17 of 1965, s. 5 and 73 of 1974, s. 12)
(2) In this section, "certificate of competency" means a cer- tificate of competency or of service other than one issued under the regulations made under section 6A. (Added, 62 of 1981, s. 7)
(3) Where a person is convicted of an offence under subsec- tion (1) or of a conspiracy to commit such an offence or of a con- spiracy to defraud in relation to a certificate of competency, the Director may cancel, or suspend for any period, the certificate of competency held by such person. (Added, 62 of 1981, s. 7)
8. Nothing in the previous sections or in any other enactment shall be deemed to prevent the employment, as master or officer of any grade in a British ship, of the subject of any such foreign state as may be specified by the Governor in Council, if the Governor shall have granted such person a written authority to act in such capacity.
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9. (1) The Governor may appoint a place to be called the Mercantile Marine Office, at which place shall be conducted all the business within the Colony connected with the engagement and discharge of seaman on board British ships and foreign ships whose flag is not represented by a consular officer resident in the Colony such ships being in the waters of the Colony? The Director shall be the Superintendent of the Mercantile Marine Office.
(2) No seaman shall, except with the sanction of the Director, be engaged to do duty on board a British ship, or any foreign ship whose flag is not represented by a consular officer resident in the Hong Kong Galany, elsewhere than at the Mercantile Marine Office. The Super- intendent shall require the production of a certificate of discharge from such seaman's last ship, and failing production such seaman shall be bound to give a satisfactory explanation to the Director of the cause of such non-production.
Agreement to be made with
searmen.
[cf. pr. Act, s. 113.]
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10. (1) The master of every British ship, and of every foreign ship whose flag is not represented by a consular officer resident in the Colony, Shall enter into an agreement with every seaman whom he engages in the Colon and carries to sea as one of his crew, in the form and manner provided by the Merchant Shipping Acts:
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