Mar. 5.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Amending Rules for the Examination of Engineers in the Mercantile Marine.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 26th February, 1931.
IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred
upon me by sections 23 and 188 of the Shipping and Seamen
Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in that
behalf, I do hereby make the rules set forth in the First Schedule
hereto, relating to the examination of Engineers in the Mercantile
Marine; and do hereby order and declare that the said rules shall
come into force on the first day of March, 1931, on which date
the rules specified in the Second Schedule hereto shall be revoked.
JAS. B. DONALD,
Minister of Marine.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

CHAPTER I.-GENERAL RULES.

1. ENGINEERS MUST HOLD CERTIFICATES OF COMPETENCY.
   In accordance with section 21 of the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908,
   every intercolonial steamship and every sea-going home-trade steam-
   ship* shall be provided with engineers duly certified according to the
   scale set forth in the Second Schedule to the Act.
   Section 21 of the Act further prescribes that every foreign-going
   steamship of 100 nominal horse-power or upwards, trading beyond
   intercolonial limits, must be provided with at least a first-class engineer
   and a second-class engineer duly certificated ; and every such steamship
   of less than 100 nominal horse-power must be provided with at least
   one engineer who is a first-class or a second-class engineer duly
   certificated.
   The nominal horse-power of a steamship as given on a vessel's
   certificate of registry may be accepted, or it may be determined in the
   manner specified in section 47 of these regulations.

2. PENALTY FOR INFRINGEMENT OF ACT.
   Any person other than a duly certificated officer who suffers himself
   to be engaged as engineer of a vessel in contravention of the Shipping
   and Seamen Act, 1908, or who employs as engineer one who is not in
   possession of or entitled to a proper certificate, shall be deemed guilty
   of an offence, which is punishable, in respect of each offence, with a
   fine not exceeding £50.
   An officer is not duly certificated unless he is the holder of a
   certificate of competency or service of a grade appropriate to his rank,
   or of a higher grade, which is valid in New Zealand.

3. NATIONALITY.-CANDIDATES MUST BE BRITISH SUBJECTS.
   Only those applicants who are British subjects by birth or by
   naturalization may be examined for marine engineers' certificates of
   competency.
   Proof of British nationality will, in ordinary circumstances, involve
   the production of a certificate of birth or naturalization. If an appli-
   cant for examination cannot produce such a certificate he will be
   required to furnish other sufficient documentary evidence of nationality.

4. APPLICATION FOR EXAMINATION.
   Each applicant for examination must fill up a form of application
   (Exn. 3), and sign the declaration thereon in the presence of a reliable
   witness.

• "Intercolonial-trading ship" means a ship employed in trading between
  New Zealand and any port within the Commonwealth of Australia, or between
  New Zealand and any of the islands lying between the parallels of 30° north and
  30° south latitude, and the meridians of 150° east and 130° west longitude.
  By a "sea-going home-trade ship" is meant a ship (1) employed in trading
  or plying between any ports or places in New Zealand, or (2) going to sea from
  any port or place in New Zealand and returning to New Zealand without steaming
  more than fifty miles from the coast thereof.
  By a "foreign-trade ship" is meant (1) a ship employed in trading between
  New Zealand and some place or places situate beyond the limits prescribed for
  intercolonial-trading vessels, or (2) a vessel employed in trading beyond inter-
  colonial limits where the distance between the extreme ports visited is not less
  than 500 miles. If the distance is less than 500 miles the vessel will be regarded
  as a home-trade ship for the purposes of these regulations.