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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 59

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

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this nineteenth day of April, 1915.

Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., 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 locomotive-engine drivers and traction-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.
LOCOMOTIVE-ENGINES AND TRACTION-ENGINES.

LOCOMOTIVE-ENGINE DRIVERS AND TRACTION-ENGINE DRIVERS.
(COMPETENCY.)

1. (1.) THE holder of a certificate to act as locomotive-engine driver may work any steam locomotive-engine propelled or moved from place to place by its own motive power or machinery, and can act as a second-class stationary-engine driver.

(2.) Every such person who is in charge of a steam locomotive-engine while being propelled or moved from place to place by its own motive power and machinery (exclusive only of engines and boilers used or employed in the working of any railway the property of His Majesty) shall be the holder of a locomotive-engine driver’s certificate.

(3.) The holder of a certificate to act as traction-engine driver may work any steam traction-engine propelled or moved from place to place by its own motive power or machinery.

2. It is provided by section 14 of the Inspection of Machinery Amendment Act, 1908, that no person who has suffered the loss of a hand or a foot shall act as the driver of a locomotive steam-engine.

3. 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 locomotive-engine driver’s certificate or traction-engine driver’s certificate.

4. It is provided by section 7 (4) of the Inspection of Machinery Amendment Act, 1914, that an applicant must forward 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.

5. An applicant for examination as a steam-locomotive-engine driver or steam-traction-engine driver must—

(1.) Be at least twenty-one years of age.

(2.) Except where otherwise specially provided, send with his application form and fee testimonials, with copies of same, signed by his employers, and such documents must state clearly and distinctly the dates of beginning and ending of each particular service.