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Merchant Shipping Act 1906 1906 c.48 An Act to amend the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1900. [21st December 1906]
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Merchant Shipping Act 1906 1906 c.48 An Act to amend the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1900. [21st December 1906]
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Propose a changeThe following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section ninety-two of the principal Act (which relates to the certificates of competency to be held by officers of ships):— (b) If the ship is of one hundred tons burden or upwards with at least one officer besides the master holding a certificate not lower than that of— (i) mate in the case of a home trade passenger ship; (ii) secound mate in the case of a foreign-going sailing ship of not more than two hundred tons burden ; and (iii) only mate in the case of any other foreign-going ship.
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