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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 64

DISQUALIFICATION OF HOLDER OF CERTIFICATE.

Section 63. (1) Where it appears to the Board of Examiners that any person being the holder of a certificate under this Act is guilty of any offence or misconduct which would render him unfit to be trusted to efficiently perform his duties as such holder, or has failed, on the inspection of any machinery of which he is in charge, to notify the Inspector of any defects which he knows or believes to exist in that machinery, the Secretary may call upon such person to show cause why his certificate should not be cancelled or suspended.

(2) If such person fails to show cause, the Secretary, on the recommendation of the Board, shall report the matter to the Minister, who may cancel such certificate or suspend it for such period as he thinks fit, and during any such period of suspension such person shall be deemed not to be the holder of such certificate.

(3) Every person whose certificate is cancelled or suspended as aforesaid shall deliver such certificate to the Secretary, and if he fails so to deliver it on demand by the Secretary he commits an offence and is liable to a fine of twenty pounds.

(4) Where any engine-driver's certificate has, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, been suspended or cancelled, the Minister may in his discretion reduce the period of suspension, or may direct the issue of a new certificate without examination to the former holder of such cancelled certificate.

ACTING WITHOUT CERTIFICATE.

Section 64. Every person who acts in the capacity of engine-driver in charge of any steam stationary engine or its boiler, or of a boiler which has no machinery attached thereto, or of any winding-engine or winding machinery, or of a steam-engine propelled or moved from place to place by its own motive power and machinery, without a proper certificate, where a certificated driver is by law required, and every person who employs such uncertificated driver or person so in charge as aforesaid, is liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds for every day or part of a day during which he so acts.

OBTAINING CERTIFICATE IMPROPERLY.

Section 65. (1) Every person who obtains or attempts to obtain any certificate under this Act by fraud, and every person who gives to any person any false testimonial as to service, is liable to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.

(2) Every certificate improperly obtained, whether obtained before or after the passing of this Act, may be cancelled by the Secretary; and the holder thereof shall when called upon by the Secretary return such certificate.

(3) Every person who, after notice by the Secretary that any such certificate has been cancelled, uses such certificate, or fails to return the same to the Secretary, commits an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.

APPENDIX B.

LEVEL-CROSSING SIGNALS FOR ROAD-USERS.

(1) A White Board on a post in the form of a St. Andrew's Cross, bearing in Black lettering the words “Railway Crossing,” is placed on the roadside at a reasonable distance from all Level Crossings, and indicates that the speed of vehicles should be such to enable them to stop before reaching the Crossing.

(2) A post carrying Two White Boards, bearing in Black lettering the words “Railway” and “Look out for the Engine,” is placed on the roadside within 33 ft. of the railway-line. Vehicles should stop at this sign if a train is approaching.