Merchant Shipping Act, 1894

Certificate of service.

415.(1) If any person before the [1] first day of September one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three served as a skipper or before the [1] first day of July one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight served as a second hand in fishing boats, being trawlers of twenty-five tons tonnage and upwards of such other fishing boats as the Board of Trade consider will have afforded that person sufficient experience, for a period amounting in all to not less than twelve months, that person shall be entitled to a certificate of service as skipper or second hand, as the case may be, of a fishing boat, limited, if he has been exclusively employed in a particular class of such fishing boats, to that particular class.

(2) If a person proves to the Board of Trade that he has served as required by this section and has been generally well conducted on board the boats in which he has served, the Board of Trade shall deliver a certificate of service to him.

(3) The certificate of service shall differ in form from a certificate of competency, and shall contain particulars of the name, place, and date of birth of the holder, and of the length and nature of his previous service.

(4) This Act shall apply to a certificate of service so granted and to the holder thereof in like manner as it applies to a certificate of competency granted under this Part of this Act and to the holder thereof.

[1 In the case of trawlers putting out from Scottish ports, June 1st, 1907, see 6 Edw. 7. c. 48. s. 81 (1).]

[1 In the case of trawlers putting out from Scottish ports, June 1st, 1907, see 6 Edw. 7. c. 48. s. 81 (1).]