Home | Databases | WorldLII | Search | Feedback United Kingdom Legislation for Fiji

  Download original PDF

Merchant Shipping (Certificates of Competency as A.B.) (Canada) Order, 1954

CERTIFICATES TO SEAMEN

THE MERCHANT SHIPPING (CERTIFICATES OF
COMPETENCY AS A.B.) (CANADA) ORDER, 1954

AT THE COURT OF SAINT JAMES,
the 26th day of January, 1954.

PRESENT:

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER.
EARL OF HAREWOOD.

Whereas Her Majesty, in pursuance of the Regency Acts, 1937 to 1953, was pleased, by Letters Patent dated the twentieth day of November, 1953, to delegate to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret, His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester, Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal and the Earl of Harewood, or any two or more of them, as Counsellors of State, full power and authority during the period of Her Majesty's absence from the United Kingdom to summon and hold on Her Majesty's behalf Her Privy Council and to signify thereat Her Majesty's approval of anything for which Her Majesty's approval in Council is required:

And whereas provision is made by the law of Canada for the grant of certificates of competency as A.B.:

And whereas the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation has reported to Her Majesty that he is satisfied that the conditions under which such a certificate is granted require standard of competency not lower than those required for the grant of a certificate in pursuance of regulations made under Section 5 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1948:

Now, therefore, His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester and the Earl of Harewood, being authorised thereto by the said Letters Patent, and in pursuance of the powers conferred by subsection (4) of Section 5 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1948, do hereby, by and with the advice of Her Majesty's Privy Council, on Her Majesty's behalf order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-

1. (1) This Order shall come into operation on the 3rd day of February, 1954, and may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Certificates of Competency as A.B.) (Canada) Order, 1954.

(2) In this Order the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say:-

"the Act" means the Merchant Shipping Act, 1948;

"the principal Regulations" means the Merchant Shipping
(Certificates of Competency as A. B.) Regulations, 1952;

"the Regulations" means the principal Regulations, the Merchant Shipping (Certificates of Competency as A.B.) (Amendment) Regulations, 1953 and the Merchant Shipping (Certificates of Competency as A.B.) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1953.

(3) The Interpretation Act, 1889, shall apply to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

2. Certificates of Competency as A.B. granted in Canada shall have the same effect for the purposes of Section 5 of the Act as if they had been granted in pursuance of the Regulations.

3. Regulation l0 of the principal Regulations (which applies Section 104 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, to certificates of competency as A.B. granted under the Regulations) shall apply in relation to certificates of competency as A.B. granted in Canada as it applies in relation to certificates of competency as A.B. granted under the Regulations.

W. G. AGNEW

F.A. 30/56

______