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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 10

pose penalties not exceeding fifty pounds for the breach of such conditions and regulations.

And that, upon the publication in the London Gazette of any such Order in Council as last aforesaid, the provisions therein contained shall, from a date to be mentioned for the purpose in such order, take effect as if they had been contained in the Act, and that it shall be lawful for Her Majesty in Council to revoke any order made as aforesaid :

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 various Orders in Council, Her Majesty was pleased to declare that, subject to certain exceptions, conditions, and regulations therein contained or set out in the Schedules thereto, the colonial certificates granted as follows, viz.,—

1. On or after the 19th day of August, 1871, by the Minister of Marine and Fisheries in Canada, to persons intending to act as masters or mates on board British ships, and referred to in an Order in Council dated the 19th day of August, 1871 ;

2. On and after the 12th day of May, 1874, by the head of the Government of the Possession of Malta and its dependencies, to persons intending to act as masters, mates, or engineers on board British ships, and referred to in an Order in Council dated the said 12th day of May, 1874 ;

3. On and after the 1st day of April, 1876, by the Steam Navigation Board of Victoria, to persons intending to act as masters, mates, or engineers of British sea-going steamships, and referred to in an Order in Council dated the 12th day of February, 1876 ;

4. On and after the 1st day of April, 1876, by the Governor for the time being of the Possession of New Zealand, to persons intending to act as masters, mates, or engineers on board British ships, and referred to in an Order in Council dated the 12th day of February, 1876 ;

5. On and after the 1st day of April, 1876, by the Marine Board of the Possession of New South Wales, to persons intending to act as masters, first mates, second mates, first-class engineers, or second-class engineers on board British ships, and referred to in an Order in Council dated the 12th day of February, 1876 ;

6. On and after the 1st day of April, 1876, by the Marine Board of the Possession of South Australia, to persons intending to act as masters, first mates, only mates, second mates, first-class engineers, or second-class engineers on board British ships, and referred to in an Order in Council dated the 12th day of February, 1876 ;

7. On and after the 1st day of April, 1876, by the Governor of the Possession of Tasmania, to persons intending to act as masters, mates, or engineers on board British ships, and referred to in an Order in Council dated the 17th day of May, 1876 ;

8. On and after the 27th day of June, 1876, by the Lieutenant-Governor of the Possession of Bengal, to persons intending to act as masters, mates, or engineers on board British ships, and referred to in an Order in Council dated the said 27th day of June, 1876 ;

9. On and after the 14th day of May, 1877, by the Governor of the Possession of Newfoundland, to persons intending to act as masters or mates on board British ships, and referred to in an Order in Council dated the said 14th day of May, 1877 ;

10. On and after the 11th day of July, 1877, by the Governor of the Possession of Bombay, to persons intending to act as masters, mates, or engineers on board British ships, and referred to in an Order in Council dated the said 11th day of July, 1877 ;

11. On and after the 1st day of October, 1877, by the Marine Board of the Possession of Queensland, to persons intending to act as masters, mates, or engineers on board British ships, and referred to in an Order in Council dated the 26th day of March, 1878 ;

12. On and after the 1st day of January, 1884, by the Governor of the Possession of Hong Kong, to persons intending to act as masters, mates, or engineers on board British ships, and referred to in an Order in Council dated the 31st day of December, 1883 ;

13. On and after the 1st day of January, 1887, by the Minister of Marine and Fisheries in the Possession of Canada, to persons intending to act as first-class engineers or second-class engineers of sea-going British ships, and referred to in an Order in Council dated the 10th day of November, 1886,

should be of the same force as if they had been granted under the said Acts, and subject to the conditions and regulations imposed and made by the Board of Trade, and set out in the Schedules to the said recited Orders in Council respectively :

And whereas by Orders in Council of the 29th day of June, 1882, and the 10th day of November, 1886, Her Majesty was pleased to rescind the said conditions and regulations (except in so far as the same related to certificates of competency granted to masters, mates, or engineers by the Governor of Hong Kong), and to substitute therefor the conditions and regulations set out in the Schedule to the said last recited Order in Council, and numbered 1 to 10 respectively, and to declare that the same should apply to all colonial certificates granted under any of the said recited orders :

And whereas it has been made to appear to Her Majesty that it is expedient that the condition and regulation numbered six, set out in the Schedules to the said recited Orders in Council, should be altered so as to allow, upon the recommendation of the Court or authority which cancels or suspends a certificate, whether granted by the Board of Trade or by the Government of a British Possession, the grant, to persons whose certificates have been cancelled or suspended under the provisions of the said recited Acts, or of any Act or Ordinance for the time being in force in any part of Her Majesty’s dominions, of a colonial certificate of a lower grade without the previous sanction of the Board of Trade or of the authority by whom such cancelled or suspended certificate was originally granted, and that the conditions and regulations set out in the said recited Orders in Council 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 substituted 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—

(a) by the Minister of Marine and Fisheries in Canada, from and after the 19th day of August, 1871, to persons intending to act as masters or mates on board British sea-going ships, and from and after the 1st day of January, 1887, to persons intending to act as first class engineers or second class engineers on board such ships ;

(b) by the Head of the Government of the Possession of Malta and its dependencies, from and after the 12th day of May, 1874, to persons intending to act as masters, mates, or engineers on board British ships, that is to say, to masters of the first class, or masters of a foreign-going ship ; to mates of the first class, or first mate of a foreign-going ship ; to mates of the second class, or second mate of a foreign-going ship ; to engineers of the first class, or first-class engineers ; and to engineers of the second class, or second-class engineers ;

(c) by the Steam Navigation Board of Victoria, appointed by the Government of the Possession of Victoria, from and after the 4th day of January, 1870, to persons intending to act as masters, mates, or engineers of foreign-going British steamships ;

(d) by the Governor for the time being of the Possession of New Zealand, from and after the 1st day of May, 1872, to persons intending to act as masters, mates, or engineers on board foreign-going British ships ;

(e) by the Marine Board of the Possession of New South Wales, from and after the 18th day of June, 1872, to persons intending to act as masters, first mates, or second mates, or as first-class engineers, or as second-class engineers on foreign-going British ships ;

(f) by the Marine Board of the Possession of South Australia, from and after the 12th day of May, 1874, to persons intending to act as masters, first mates, only mates, or second mates, or first-class engineers, or second-class engineers on board foreign-going British ships ;

(g) by the Governor of the Possession of Tasmania, from and after the 1st day of April, 1876, to persons intending to act as masters, mates, or engineers on board foreign-going British ships ;

(h) by the Lieutenant-Governor of the Possession of Bengal, from and after the 27th day of June, 1876, to persons intending to act as masters, mates, or engineers on board foreign-going British ships ;

(i) by the Governor of the Possession of Newfoundland, from and after the 14th day of May, 1877, to persons intending to act as masters or mates on board foreign-going British ships ;

(k) by the Governor of the Possession of Bombay, from and after the 11th day of July, 1877, to persons intending to act as masters, mates, or engineers on board foreign-going British ships ;

(l) by the Marine Board of the Possession of Queensland, from and after the 1st day of October, 1877, to persons intending to act as masters, mates, or engineers on board foreign-going British ships ;

(m) by the Governor of the Possession of Hong Kong, from and after the 1st day of January, 1884, to persons intending to act as masters, mates, or engineers on board foreign-going British ships,