New Zealand Gazette – 1923 – No. 52

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✨ Maritime Certification Requirements



June 14.J

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

APPENDIX J.

SEA SERVICE REQUIRED FOR THE VARIOUS GRADES.

TABLE SHOWING THE REQUIREMENTS AS TO SEA SERVICE NECESSARY
TO QUALIFY FOR EXAMINATION FOR CERTIFICATES OF COMPETENCY.

Service in Square-rigged Sailing-vessels.

A candidate for an ordinary certificate of any grade who has
not previously held an ordinary certificate of a lower grade must
prove that he has served twelve months in the foreign trade or
eighteen months in the home or coasting trade in a square-rigged
sailing-vessel.

Nature of Certificates.

Where foreign-going certificates are required to be held to qualify
candidates for examination, they may be either the ordinary certificates, or those for fore-and-aft-rigged vessels or for foreign-going
steamships.

It must be clearly understood that the amount of service laid
down in the regulations for each grade of certificate of competency
is the absolute minimum that can be accepted, and unless a candidate
can show the full amount he must in no case be allowed up for
examination.

Rank. Minimum Age. Total Sea Service (Years). Years. Officer's Service in Merchant Vessels. Lowest Capacity. Lowest Certificate required.
Second mate .. 18 4 . No officer's services required None. None.
Only mate ... 19 5 . No officer's services required None. None.
First mate ... 19 5 1 Third or fourth mate in foreign trade in charge of watch Or Second mate (foreign-going). Second mate (foreign-going) or home-trade mate).
1½ Only mate in home or coasting trade..
Or Pilot with first-class pilot's certificate .. None. Only mate (foreign-going).
Master ... 21 6 1 Only mate in foreign trade...
Or Only mate in home or coasting trade..
(And in addition, unless the above service was performed with a first mate's foreign-going certificate, he will be required to prove one of the following services prescribed for that grade:
1 (a) Third or fourth mate in foreign trade in charge of watch Or Second mate (foreign-going).
1½ (b) Only mate, home or coasting trade) Second mate (foreign-going or home-trade mate).
Or Pilot with first-class pilot's certificate.. None.
OR HE MUST HAVE SERVED Second mate in foreign trade First mate (foreign-going).
Provided that if this service as second mate was performed under an additional or auxiliary first mate, it will only be accepted if a third and fourth mate were also carried. And in addition
1½ Third or fourth mate in foreign trade in charge of watch Second mate (foreign-going).
OR HE MUST HAVE SERVED
7½ Third mate in foreign trade .. First mate (foreign-going).
And in addition
1½ Third or fourth mate in foreign trade in charge of watch Second mate (foreign-going).
OR HE MUST HAVE SERVED
9* 3 Master in home or coasting trade .. Second mate (foreign-going) or master (home trade) for one year of such service.
1 Master in home or coasting trade Ditto.
3 Mate in home or coasting trade
Extra master Same as master.
  • If all the service was in home or coasting trade


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