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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 103

Colonial certificates of competency.

103.(1) The master of a foreign-going ship

(a)on signing the agreement with the crew before a superintendent shall
produce to him the certificates of competency which the master, mates, and
engineers of the ship are by this Act required to hold: and

(b)in the case of a running agreement shall also, before the second and every
subsequent voyage, produce to the superintendent the certificate of competency
of any mate or engineer then first engaged by him who is required by this Act
to hold a certificate.

(2) The master or owner of every home trade passenger ship of more than eighty
tons burden shall produce to some superintendent within twenty-one days after
the thirtieth of June and the thirty-first of December in every year the
certificates of competency which the master, mates, and engineers of the ship
are by this Act required to hold.

(3) Upon the production of the certificates of competency, the superintendent
shall, if the certificates are such as the master, mates and engineers of the
ship ought to hold, give to the master a certificate to the effect that the
proper certificates of competency have been so produced.

(4) The master shall, before proceeding to sea, produce the superintendent's
certificate to the chief officer of customs, and the ship may be detained
until the certificate is produced.][

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