MAR. 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 945

10. In case the company shall—
    (1.) Commit or suffer a breach of the conditions herein-before set forth, or any of them;
    (2.) Cease to use or occupy the said timber-booms for a period of thirty days;
    (3.) Fail to pay the sums specified in clause 3 of these conditions; or
    (4.) Be in any manner wound up or dissolved,—
    then and in any of the said cases this Order in Council, and every right, power, or privilege, may be revoked and determined by the Governor in Council without any notice to the company or other proceedings whatsoever; and publication in the New Zealand Gazette of an Order in Council containing such revocation shall be sufficient notice to the company, and to all persons concerned or interested, that this Order in Council, and the rights and privileges thereby conferred, have been revoked and determined; and upon such revocation the Minister may cause the said timber-booms to be removed, and may recover the costs incurred by any such removal from the company.

11. The construction of the timber-booms shall be deemed to be an acceptance by the company of the conditions of this Order in Council.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations under the Inspection of Machinery Act, 1908, and Amendments, as to Electric Winding-engine Drivers’ Certificates.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of March, 1913.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE A. L. HERDMAN PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section sixty-one of the Inspection of Machinery Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, make regulations for the examinations for certificates, and prescribing the fees to be paid by applicants for certificates, and the forms of such certificates: And whereas it is desired to make regulations for the examination of electric winding-engine drivers and for the issue of certificates thereto: Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the said section sixty-one, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations for the purposes aforesaid; and doth hereby declare that these regulations shall come into force on the day of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

REGULATIONS.

ELECTRIC WINDING-ENGINE DRIVERS’ CERTIFICATES OF COMPETENCY.

1. (1.) An applicant for examination for an electric winding-engine driver’s certificate must—
   (a.) Be not less than twenty-one years of age;
   (b.) Be a British subject, and satisfy the Board that he can speak and write the English language sufficiently to be able to carry out the duties he is required to perform as the holder of a certificate as an electric winding-engine driver;
   (c.) Forward to the Chief Inspector of Machinery, Wellington, not less than twenty-one days before the date of examination, his application for examination (on a form to be obtained at the office of any Inspector of Machinery), together with an examination fee of £1 (by money-order, postal note, or cash, and not by cheque), the testimonials hereinafter specified, and a copy of each such testimonial.

(2.) No part of the examination fee will be returned, except when an applicant applies under a misapprehension; but if it is found that the applicant’s service is insufficient to entitle him to be examined, or that his testimonials are unsatisfactory, he will be allowed to present himself for examination when he has fulfilled the necessary requirements.

2. (1.) The application must be accompanied by testimonials as follows:—
   (a.) A certificate of good character and sobriety for the twelve months immediately preceding his application;
   (b.) A certificate in writing, signed by a registered medical practitioner, that the applicant is neither wholly nor partially deaf, nor has defective eyesight, nor is subject to any other infirmity likely to interfere with the efficient discharge of his duties.

(2.) In the case of the holder of a steam, air, or hydraulic winding-engine driver’s certificate, the number and date of issue of such certificate must be stated on his application.

(3.) If the applicant is not the holder of one of the certificates mentioned in the last preceding clause, he must forward a testimonial from his employer stating that he has been working under a certificated electric winding-engine driver for not less than six months on an electric winding-engine or on electric winding-machinery by means whereof persons are drawn up, down, or along any shaft, pit, or inclined plane or level in any mine or coal-mine, or by means whereof material is raised or lowered when a shaft is being sunk in a mine or coal-mine.

(4.) If an applicant is unable, from any sufficient cause, to produce an employer’s testimonial as required by the last preceding subclause, the Board of Examiners may accept in lieu thereof a statutory declaration verifying the facts.

3. No person who has suffered the loss of a hand or a foot shall be entitled to a certificate under these regulations, or shall act as the driver of an electric winding-engine.

4. The subjects for oral examination shall be as follows:—
   (a.) Simple questions connected with electric motors used for winding purposes, and their connections;
   (b.) The different appliances used to show the position of the cage in the shaft or the truck on the plane in in which persons or material are conveyed, also the meaning of the different signals used in mines or coal-mines;
   (c.) The description and uses of the different brakes used for machinery of this class; and
   (d.) The precautions necessary when dealing with high-tension circuits, and the means to be adopted for the restoration of persons suffering from electric shock.

5. Examinations will be held on the first week-day (and following days if necessary to complete examination) of February, May, August, and November, in the office of the Inspector of Machinery at Auckland, Hamilton, Wanganui, Napier, Palmerston North, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Greymouth, Timaru, Dunedin, and Invercargill, or such other times and places as may be necessary, and all applications must be lodged with the Chief Inspector of Machinery, Wellington, twenty-one days before the date of examination.

6. If a certificate issued under these regulations is lost or destroyed, the holder thereof may, on payment of a fee of 5s., apply for the issue of a duplicate certificate. Every such application shall be on a form, to be obtained at the office of the Chief Inspector of Machinery, at Wellington, and shall be supported by a declaration made by the applicant accounting for the loss of the original certificate.

7. The electric winding-engine driver’s certificate of competency shall be in the following form:—

New Zealand.

No. ___

The Inspection of Machinery Act, 1908.

ELECTRIC WINDING-ENGINE DRIVER’S CERTIFICATE OF COMPETENCY.

Office of the Board of Examiners, Wellington, 19__.

This is to certify that , of , born at , on the day of ___, 19__, has passed an examination, and satisfied the Board of Examiners that he is entitled to an electric winding-engine driver’s certificate of competency for driving and having charge of any electric winding-engine under subsection (1) of section 2 of the Inspection of Machinery Amendment Act, 1910.

Signature of holder of certificate.

The Board of Examiners.

Secretary.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.