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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

same section shall apply to such Colonial
certificates of competency: Provided, how-
ever, that the foregoing exceptions shall not
interfere with or suspend the operation of an
Act of the Legislature of New Zealand, in-
tituled "The Merchant Shipping Acts Adop-
tion Act, 1869" (32 and 33 Vict., No. 5):
(3.) To impose and make the conditions and
regulations following, numbered 1 to 10 re-
spectively, 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
conditions and regulations, the penalties
therein mentioned.

Form of Certificate.

1. Every such Colonial certificate of competency
   shall be on parchment, and as nearly as possible
   similar in shape and form to the corresponding
   certificate of competency for the foreign trade
   granted by the Board of Trade under the Acts
   relating to Merchant Shipping.

Name of Possession to be inserted.
2. Every such Colonial certificate of competency
shall have the name of the said Possession of New
Zealand inserted prominently on its face and back.

Certificates to be numbered consecutively.
3. Such Colonial certificates of competency shall
be numbered in consecutive order.

Lists of Certificates granted, cancelled, &c., to be sent to
the Registrar-General of Seamen.
4. The Government of the said Possession shall
furnish the Registrar-General of Seamen in London,
from time to time, with accurate lists of all such
Colonial certificates of competency as may be granted
by the Governor for the time being of the said
Possession as aforesaid, or as may, for any cause
whatsoever, be cancelled, suspended, renewed, or re-
issued.

Three Years' Domicile or Service necessary.
5. Such Colonial certificates of competency shall
be granted only to persons who have been domiciled
in the said Possession, or who have served in ships
registered therein, for a period of or for periods
amounting to at least three years immediately pre-
ceding their application for such Colonial certificates.
Certificates of competency granted contrary to
this regulation shall be regarded as improperly
granted.

Certificates not to be granted when former are cancelled.
6. Such Colonial certificates of competency shall
not be granted to any person who may have had a
certificate, whether granted by the Board of Trade
or by the Government of a British Possession,
cancelled or suspended under the provisions of the
said Acts, or of any Act for the time being in force
in any part of Her Majesty's dominions, unless the
period of suspension has expired, or unless intimation
has been received from the Board of Trade, or the
Government by whom the cancelled or suspended
certificate was originally granted, to the effect that no
objection to the grant of such Colonial certificate is
known to exist, or unless a new certificate has been
granted to him by such Board or Government,
and in the last-named event no such Colonial cer-
tificate of competency shall be for a higher grade
than the certificate so last granted as aforesaid.
Colonial certificates of competency granted contrary
to this regulation shall be regarded as improperly
granted.

Certificates improperly granted may be cancelled without
formal investigation.
7. Any such Colonial certificate of competency
which appears, from information subsequently ac-
quired or otherwise, to have been improperly granted,
whether in the above or in any other respect, may be
cancelled by the Governor for the time being of the
said Possession, or by the Board of Trade in the
United Kingdom, without any formal investigation
under "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," and the
holder of such certificate shall thereupon deliver it
to the Board of Trade or the Governor for the time
being of the said Possession, 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 same manner as penalties imposed
by the Acts relating to Merchant Shipping are
thereby made recoverable.

Cancellation, &c., of a Certificate shall involve Cancellation of
all the other Certificates possessed by its Owner.
8. 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 extend equally to all the Colonial
certificates at the time possessed by the person in
respect of whom the decision is made, as well as to
all certificates granted to him under any of the Acts
relating to Merchant Shipping, and whether such
certificates be specified in such decision or not.

Certificates believed to be fraudulent may be demanded.
9. Any officer of the Board of Trade, or the Regis-
trar-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 such 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 any person who without reasonable
cause neglects or refuses to comply with such demand
shall incur a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds,
which shall be recoverable in the same manner as
penalties imposed by the Acts relating to Merchant
Shipping are thereby made recoverable.

Suspended Certificates to be reissued only by Colony by
which originally granted.
10. Any such Colonial certificate of competency
which has from any cause been cancelled or sus-
pended, whether by a tribunal in New Zealand or
elsewhere, shall be renewed or reissued only by the
Governor for the time being of New Zealand.

This Order shall take effect in the said Possession
of New Zealand from and after the date hereof, and
shall be deemed to apply to and take effect with
respect to all such Colonial certificates of competency
as shall have been granted as aforesaid since the
first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-two.

Proposed Pilotage and Distress Signals.

Customs Department (Marine Branch),
Wellington, 19th February, 1873.

THE following Board of Trade Circular, with re-
ference to proposed Pilotage and Distress
Signals, is published for general information.

JOHN BATHGATE,
(in absence of Commissioner of Customs).

[CIRCULAR No. 569.]
SIGNALS.
PILOTAGE AND DISTRESS.
THE Board of Trade have for a long time been in