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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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to answer it, but the Examiner may substitute other data or another question.

(2.) Perfect silence is to be preserved in the examination-room.

(3.) Any candidate violating any of the regulations, or being guilty of insolence to the Examiner, or of disorderly or improper conduct in or about the room, will render himself liable to the postponement of his examination, or, in the event of his having passed, to the detention of his certificate for such period as the Board of Examiners may direct.

(4.) When the number of marks obtained in arithmetic, together with the marks obtained for answers to written questions, amount to two-thirds of the maximum, the candidate then passes in this part of the examination.

7. In case of failure, no part of the fee will be returned, and the candidate will not be eligible for re-examination until after the expiration of three calendar months from the date of failure.

CHAPTER II.—APPLICATIONS.

APPLICATIONS.

8. Each applicant for a certificate must forward to the Chief Inspector of Machinery, Wellington, an application on Form 14A, properly filled in. [Such form can be had at the offices of the Inspectors of Machinery in Auckland, Hamilton, Wanganui, Napier, Palmerston North, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Timaru, Dunedin, and Invercargill.] The testimonials of the candidate, and the fee for the particular class of certificate required, must be sent with the application, and (in cases of examinations) must be lodged with the Chief Inspector of Machinery, at Wellington, twenty-one days before the date of examination.

9. It is provided by section 19 of “The Inspection of Machinery Amendment Act, 1908,” that every applicant for examination shall be a British subject, and shall satisfy the Board that he can speak and write the English language sufficiently to be able to perform the duties he is required to perform as the holder of a certificate under this Act.

10. Every holder of a certificate, when applying to be examined under these regulations for a certificate of a higher grade, must send his certificate to the Chief Inspector of Machinery, with his application, and, in case of a certificate of the higher grade being granted to him, the certificate of the lower grade will be retained by the Board of Examiners.

11. The Board of Examiners shall grant certificates of competency, in the forms set forth in the First Schedule hereto, to persons who pass the prescribed examinations for such certificates, and also in accordance with section 49 of “The Inspection of Machinery Act, 1908,” and shall also grant certificates of the appropriate class, in the form set forth in the Second Schedule hereto, to such persons as the Board shall consider entitled thereto under the 45th section of the said Act.

12. Should any doubt exist as to the age of a candidate, he will be required to produce a certificate of birth.

13. If after a candidate has passed the examination it is discovered on further investigation that his services are insufficient to entitle him to receive a certificate of the grade for which he has passed, the certificate will not be granted to him; but, if the Board are satisfied that the error in the calculation of the candidate’s service did not occur through any fault or wilful misrepresentation on his part, he may either have the fee returned to him or placed to his credit. Should his service entitle him to a certificate of a lower grade, it may be granted to him, and the difference, if any, between the fee paid by him for the superior certificate and the fee payable for the inferior certificate will be returned to him or placed to his credit. The superior certificate will not be granted until the candidate has performed the amount of service in which he was deficient and has been re-examined in all the subjects, unless the Board see fit to dispense with the re-examination.

FEES.

14. The fee must be paid by postal note, money-order, or cash (not by stamps or cheque), and be sent with the application to the Chief Inspector of Machinery, Wellington.