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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 64

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PERSONAL DESCRIPTION OF HOLDER OF CERTIFICATE AND THE DATE AND PLACE OF HIS BIRTH.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

APPENDIX A.

EXTRACTS FROM THE INSPECTION OF MACHINERY ACT, 1928.

DRIVERS OF WINDING-ENGINES.

Section 46. (1) Every person employed or acting in the capacity of engine-driver who is in charge of any winding-engine or 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 any mine or coal-mine, shall be the holder of a winding-engine driver’s certificate.

DRIVERS OF STEAM LOCOMOTIVES AND STEAM TRACTION-ENGINES.

(2) Every person who is in charge of a steam traction-engine while being propelled or moved from place to place by its own motive power and machinery shall be the holder of a traction-engine driver’s certificate, and every person who is in charge of a steam locomotive while being propelled or moved from place to place by its own motive power and machinery shall be the holder of a locomotive driver’s certificate :

Provided that the holder of a locomotive and traction-engine driver’s certificate heretofore granted under the Inspection of Machinery Act, 1908, shall be entitled to have charge of and drive either a steam traction-engine or a steam locomotive ; and provided also that any person who may hereafter obtain a certificate to be called a locomotive and traction-engine driver’s certificate may have charge of and drive either a steam traction-engine or a steam locomotive :

Provided further that this subsection shall not apply to engines and boilers used or employed in the working of any railway the property of His Majesty.

DRIVERS OF STATIONARY STEAM-ENGINES AND BOILERS.

Section 49. (1) Every person employed or acting in the capacity of engine-driver in charge of any steam stationary engine (other than a winding-engine as aforesaid) and boiler, or of any steam boiler with no machinery attached thereto, whether such engine or boiler is on land or on a vessel, shall hold an engine-driver’s certificate under this Act.

(2) Such certificates shall be by examination, and shall be of two grades, to be called first-class and second-class engine-drivers’ certificates respectively :

Provided that the holder of a first-class engine-driver’s certificate who has worked as an apprentice for at least five years in a workshop where engines are manufactured or repaired, or where work of a similar character is performed, shall be entitled after examination to receive a certificate to be called an “extra-first-class certificate,” in which the holder thereof shall be designated “an engineer.”

(3) An extra-first-class or a first-class certificate entitles the holder thereof to drive and have charge of any steam stationary engine and its boilers.

(4) A second-class certificate entitles the holder thereof to drive and have charge of any steam stationary engine the area of cylinder or combined area of cylinders of which does not exceed two hundred circular inches, and of its boilers.

(5) A certificate of any class entitles the holder thereof to have charge of any boiler to which no machinery is attached.

(6) This section shall not apply to an engine the area of cylinder or combined area of cylinders of which does not exceed one hundred and forty-four circular inches, or a boiler of fifteen horse-power or under, or to any engine or boiler forming part of the propelling machinery of any ship.