the case either to the examiners who made the report or to any other examiners, and may require a re-examination of the applicant, or a further inquiry into his testimonials and character, before granting him a certificate. of Certifi cates of or service for 99.-(1.) A person who has attained the rank lieutenant, sub-lieutenant, navigating lieutenant, navigating sub-lieutenant in Her Majesty's Navy, or of naval lieutenant in Her Majesty's Indian Marine Service, shall 1854, s. be entitled to a certificate of service as master (c) of a foreign-going ship (c) without examination. (2.) A person who has attained the rank of engineer or assistant engineer in Her Majesty's Navy or Indian Marine Service, shall be entitled without examination, if an engineer, to a certificate of service (d) as first-class engineer (e), and if an assistant engineer to a certificate of service (d) as second-class engineer (e). (3.) A certificate of service shall differ in form from a certificate of competency (e), and shall contain the name and rank of the person to whom it is delivered, and the Board of Trade shall deliver a certificate of service to any person who proves himself to be entitled thereto. (4.) The provisions of this Act (including the penal provisions (ƒ)) shall apply in the case of a certificate of service as they apply in the case of a certificate of competency, except that the provisions (g) allowing a holder of a certificate of competency as master (c) of a foreign-going ship (c) to go to sea as master (c) or mate of a hometrade passenger ship (c) shall not apply. officers. 135. 1862, s. 9. 100-(1.) All certificates of competency shall be made Form and in duplicate, one part to be delivered to the person entitled record of to the certificate (e), and one to be preserved. certificate. 1854, s. 138. (2.) Such last-mentioned part of the certificate shall be 1862, s. 10. preserved, and a record of certificates of competency and See 1854, the suspending, cancelling, or altering () of the certificates 35 & 36 and any other matter affecting them shall be kept, in such Vict. c. 73, 8. 271, and 8. 4. Loss of certificate, 1854, 8. 139. 1862, s. 10. Colonial certifi compe tency. 11, s. 8. 1854, s, 131. manner as the Board of Trade direct, by the RegistrarGeneral of Shipping and Seamen (i) or by such other person as the Board of Trade direct. (3.) Any such certificate and any record under this section shall be admissible in evidence in manner provided by this Act (k). 101. If a master (1), mate, or engineer proves to the satisfaction of the Board of Trade that he has, without fault on his part, lost or been deprived of a certificate already granted to him, the Board of Trade shall, and in any other case may, upon payment of such fee (if any) as they direct, cause a copy of the certificate to which, by the record kept in pursuance of this Act (m), he appears to be entitled, to be certified by the Registrar-General of Shipping and Seamen (i), or other person directed to keep the record (m), and to be delivered to him; and a copy purporting to be so certified shall have all the effect of the original. 102. Where the legislature (n) of any British possession (0) cates of provides for the examination of, and grant of certificates of competency to, persons intending to act as masters (1), 32 Vict. c. mates, or engineers on board ships, and the Board of Trade report to Her Majesty that they are satisfied that the examinations are so conducted as to be equally efficient with the 1862, s. 5. examinations for the same purpose in the United Kingdom under this Act, and that the certificates are granted on such principles as to show the like qualifications and competency as those granted under this Act, and are liable to be forfeited for the like reasons and in the like manner, Her Majesty may by Order in Council (p),— (i.) declare that the said certificates shall be of the same force as if they had been granted under this Act: and (ii.) declare that all or any of the provisions of this Act, which relate to certificates of competency granted under this Act, shall apply to the certificates referred to in the Order: and (i) § 251. (k) § 695. (1) Defined, § 742. (m) § 100, s. 2. (n) Int. Act, 1889, § 18, s. 7. (p) § 738. (iii.) impose such conditions and make such regulations with respect to the certificates, and to the use, issue, delivery, cancellation, and suspension thereof, as Her Majesty may think fit, and impose fines not exceeding fifty pounds for the breach of those conditions and regulations. mates, Produc tificates of and tency to superin to tendent. 1854, ss. 161, 162. 103.-(1.) The master (q) of a foreign-going ship (q)— (a.) on signing the agreement with the crew (r) before a tion of cersuperintendent (s) shall produce to him the certificates compeof competency which the master (q), engineers of the ship are by this Act hold (t) and (b.) in the case of a running agreement (u) shall also, 1862, s. 10. before the second and every subsequent voyage, produce to the superintendent (s) the certificate of competency of any mate or engineer then first engaged by him who is required by this Act to hold a certificate (t). (2.) The master (q) or owner (x) of every home-trade passenger ship (q) of more than eighty tons burden shall produce to some superintendent (s) 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 (q), mates, and engineers of the ship are by this Act required to hold (t). (3.) Upon the production of the certificates of competency, the superintendent (s) shall, if the certificates are such as the master (9), mates, and engineers of the ship ought to hold (t), give to the master (g) a certificate to the effect that the proper certificates of competency have been so produced. (4.) The master (q) shall, before proceeding to sea, produce the superintendent's (s) certificate (y) to the chief officer of customs (q), and the ship may be detained (2) until the certificate is produced. Forgery, tency. 1854, s. 140. 1862, s. 10. Apprenticeship to the Sea Assistance 104. If any person (a.) forges or fraudulently alters, or assists in forging or fraudulently altering, or procures to be forged or fraudulently altered, any certificate of competency, or an official copy of any such certificate; or (b.) makes, assists in making, or procures to be made, any false representation for the purpose of procuring either for himself or for any other person a certificate of competency; or (c.) fraudulently uses a certificate or copy of a certificate of competency which has been forged, altered, cancelled or suspended, or to which he is not entitled; or (d.) fraudulently lends his certificate of competency or allows it to be used by any other person, that person shall in respect of each offence be guilty of a misdemeanor (a). Apprenticeship to the Sea Service. 105. All superintendents (b) shall give to persons desirous Service. of apprenticing boys to or requiring apprentices for the sea service, such assistance as may be in their power, and may receive from those persons such fees as the Board of Trade fix, with the concurrence, so far as relates to pauper apprentices in England, of the Local Government Board, and so far as relates to pauper apprentices in Ireland, of the Local Government Board for Ireland. given by superintendents as to apprenticeship. 1854, s. 141. Appren of paupers Britain 106. Subject to the special provisions of this Act (c), ticeships apprenticeships to the sea service made by a board of in Great guardians (d) or persons having the authority of a board of guardians shall, if made in Great Britain, be made in the same manner and be subject to the same laws and regulations as other apprenticeships made by such boards or persons (e); and if made in Ireland, be subject to the following regulations: and Ireland. 1854, s. 144. (a.) The board of guardians () or other persons (ƒ) in any (a) Procedure, §§ 680-684; fines how applicable, §§ 699, 716. (b) Cf. §§ 247, 742. (e) § 107. (d) Int. Act, 1889, § 16. (e) See 4 & 5 Will. IV. c. 76; 7 & 8 Vict. c. 101; and Archbold's Poor Law; Burn's Justice, title Poor; Chitty's Statutes, title Poor. (f) There is apparently some poor law union (9) may put out and bind as apprentice to the sea service any boy who, or whose parent, is receiving relief in the union, and who has attained the age of twelve years, and is of sufficient health and strength, and consents to be bound: (b.) If the cost of relieving the boy is chargeable to an electoral division of a poor law union (g), then (except where paid officers act in place of guardians) he shall not be so bound unless the consent in writing of the guardians of that division, or of a majority of them, if more than one, is first obtained, and that consent shall, if possible, be endorsed on the indenture: (c.) The expenses incurred in the binding and outfit of any such apprentice shall be charged to the poor law union (g) or electoral division, as the case may be, to which the boy or his parent is chargeable at the time of his being apprenticed: (d.) All indentures made in a poor law union (g) may be sued on by the board of guardians (h) of the union, or persons having the authority of such board, by their name of office; and actions so brought shall not abate by reason of any death or change in the persons holding office, but such an action shall not be commenced without the consent of the Local Government. Board for Ireland: (e.) The amount of the costs incurred in any such action, and not recovered from the defendant, may be charged as the expenses incurred in binding out the apprentice (i). pauper ap 107. Every indenture of apprenticeship to the sea service Attestamade in the United Kingdom by a board of guardians (), tion of or persons having the authority of a board of guardians, prenticeshall be executed (k) by the boy and the person to whom he ship. is bound in the presence of and shall be attested by two 142. omission here; the old Act (1854, s. 144) runs," or other persons duly appointed to carry into execution the Acts for the relief of the destitute poor, and having the authority of guardians of the poor." (g) Int. Act, 1889, § 16, s. 2. 1854, s. |