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Statutory Instruments
MERCHANT SHIPPING
MASTERS AND SEAMEN
Made
26th July 1972
Laid before Parliament
1st August 1972
Coming into Operation
1st September 1972
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 26th day of July 1972
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Whereas provision is made by the law of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony for the grant of certificates of competency as A.B.:
And whereas the Secretary of State has reported to Her Majesty that he is satisfied that the conditions under which such certificates are granted require standards 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, Her Majesty, in pursuance of the powers vested in Her by section 5(4) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1948 and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-
1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Certificates of Competency as A.B.) (Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony) Order 1972 and shall come into operation on 1st September 1972.
(2) In this Order "the Act" means
(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 the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony shall have the same effect for the purposes of section 5 of the Act as if they had been granted in pursuance of regulations made under that section.
3. Any of the provisions of the regulations made under section 5 of the Act applying section 104 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 to certificates of competency as A.B. granted under those regulations shall apply in relation to certificates of competency as A.B. granted in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony.
W.G. Agnew
This Order provides for the recognition in the United Kingdom of certificates of competency as A.B. granted to seamen in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony.
