1382 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 83

(e.) The Marine Board of New South Wales,
(f.) The Marine Board of South Australia,
(g.) The Governor of Tasmania,
(h.) The Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal,
(i.) The Governor of Newfoundland,
(j.) The Governor of Bombay,
(k.) The Marine Board of Queensland,
shall be of the same force as if they had been granted
under the Acts relating to merchant shipping:

And whereas by the condition or regulation num-
bered five contained in each of the said recited Orders
in Council, it is provided that such colonial certifi-
cates of competency shall be granted only to persons
who, for a period of three years immediately preced-
ing their application for such colonial certificates, or
who, for several periods amounting together to three
years, the earliest of which shall have commenced
within five years prior to such application, have been
domiciled in or have served in a ship or ships regis-
tered in the said possessions respectively, and that
certificates of competency granted contrary to this
regulation shall be regarded as improperly granted:

And whereas it has been represented to Her
Majesty in Council that the provisions of the said
fifth condition or regulation in the said recited
Orders in Council should be rescinded, and that
other provisions should be substituted in lieu thereof:

And whereas it has been made to appear to Her
Majesty that the said recited Orders in Council
should be revoked, and a new Order in Council,
modified and amended in manner aforesaid, substi-
tuted in lieu thereof:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the
advice and consent of her Privy Council, doth here-
by direct that, from and after the first day of October,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, the
following Orders in Council, that is to say,-

(a.) An Order in Council, dated the nineteenth
day of August, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-one, relating to colonial certifi-
cates of competency granted by the Minister
of Marine and Fisheries in Canada;

(b.) An Order in Council, dated the twelfth day
of May, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-four, relating to colonial certificates
of competency granted by the Head of the
Government of the possession of Malta and
its dependencies;

(c.) An Order in Council, dated the twelrth day
of February, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-six, relating to colonial certificates of
competency granted by the Steam Navigation
Board of Victoria, appointed by the Governor
of the said possession of Victoria;

(d.) An Order in Council, dated the twelfth day
of February, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-six, relating to colonial certificates of
competency granted by the Governor for the
time being of the possession of New Zealand;

(e.) An Order in Council, dated the twelfth day
of February, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-six, relating to colonial certificates of
competency granted by the Marine Board of
the possession of New South Wales;

(f.) An Order in Council, dated the twelfth day
of February, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-six, relating to colonial certificates of
competency granted by the Marine Board of
South Australia;

(g.) An Order in Council, dated the twentieth
day of November, one thousand eight hundred
and eighty, relating to colonial certificates of
competency granted by the Governor of the
possession of Tasmania;

(h.) An Order in Council, dated the twenty-
seventh day of June, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-six, relating to colonial
certificates of competency granted by the
Lieutenant-Governor of the possession of
Bengal;

(i.) An Order in Council, dated the fourteenth
day of May, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-seven, relating to colonial certificates
of competency granted by the Governor of
the possession of Newfoundland;

(j.) An Order in Council, dated the eleventh
day of July, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-seven, relating to colonial certificates
of competency granted by the Governor of
the possession of Bombay;

(k.) An Order in Council, dated the twenty-
sixth day of March, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-eight, relating to
colonial certificates of competency granted
by the Marine Board of the possession of
Queensland,
shall be and the same are hereby revoked: Provided,
however, that the revocation of the said Orders in
Council shall not affect or invalidate any colonial
certificate of competency previously granted there-
under.

And Her Majesty is further pleased-

1. To declare that the colonial certificates of
   competency granted by-

(l.) The Minister of Marine and Fisheries in
the possession of Canada, and the Governor
of the possession of Newfoundland, to per-
sons intending to act as masters and mates on
board British ships;

(m.) The Head of the Government of the pos-
session of Malta and its dependencies, the
Governor for the time being of the possession
of New Zealand, the Governor of the posses-
sion of Tasmania, the Marine Board of the
possession of Queensland, the Lieutenant-
Governor of the possession of Bengal, and the
Governor of the possession of Bombay, to per-
sons intending to act as masters, mates, or
engineers on board British ships;

(n.) The Steam Navigation Board of Victoria,
appointed by the Government of the posses-
sion of Victoria, to persons intending to act as
masters, mates, or engineers of British sea-
going steamships;

(o.) The Marine Board of the possession of
New South Wales to persons intending to
act as masters, first mates or second mates,
or as first class engineers or second class
engineers on board British ships;

(p.) The Marine Board of the possession of
South Australia to persons intending to act
as masters, first mates, only mates, or second
mates, or first class engineers or second
class engineers on board British ships,
shall be of the same force as if they had been granted
under the said Acts.

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
   so much of the one hundred and thirty-ninth section
   of "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," and the
   tenth section of "The Merchant Shipping Amend-
   ment Act, 1862," as requires the delivery, by the
   Board of Trade to any master, mate, or engineer, of a
   copy of any certificate to which he appears to be
   entitled as therein mentioned; so much of the third
   paragraph of the twenty-third section of the said last-
   mentioned Act as requires, at the conclusion of a case
   relating to the cancelling or suspending of a certi-
   ficate, such certificate, if cancelled or suspended, to be
   forwarded to the Board of Trade, and the whole of
   the provisions of the fourth paragraph of the same