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[接上页] 3. (a) If the rating successfully completes a course of training and examinations to qualify him as a seafarer at a school or college approved by the Authority, together with 2 months' sea service in the deck department associated particularly with navigational watchkeeping duties, the Authority may remit the remaining 4 months of the 6 months' sea service specified in section 2(a). (b) If the rating has attended a course of training as in paragraph (a) and has failed to pass the examinations to qualify him as a seafarer, but has completed 4 months' sea service in the deck department associated particularly with navigational watchkeeping duties, the Authority may remit the remaining 2 months of the 6 months' sea service specified in section 2(a). (c) If the rating is the holder of an Engine Room Watch Rating Certificate issued under section 5 of the Merchant Shipping (Seafarers) (Engine Room Watch Ratings) Regulation (Cap 478 sub. leg.)- (i) where the rating has completed 3 months' sea service entirely in the deck department, the Authority may remit the remaining 3 months of the 6 months' sea service specified in section 2(a); (ii) the 6 months' sea service specified in section 2(a) may be performed in a general purpose capacity being mixed service partly in the deck department and partly in the engine department; and (iii) the rating will be required to receive training only in respect of the matters specified in section 2(a)(ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii) and (viii). 4. An applicant for a Navigational Watch Rating Certificate must produce- (a) a valid medical fitness certificate issued under the Merchant Shipping (Seafarers) (Medical Examination) Regulation (Cap 478 sub. leg.) or other evidence to satisfy the Authority as to the state of the rating's health and eyesight; and (b) a Steering Certificate or series of certificates showing that the rating has taken turns at the wheel in steering a ship (other than under instruction) for not less than 10 hours in total. (Enacted 1996) Cap 478W Sched 2 [section 5(1) & (6)] MERCHANT SHIPPING (SEAFARERS)(NAVIGATIONAL WATCH RATINGS) REGULATION HONG KONG NAVIGATIONAL WATCH RATING CERTIFICATE Name in full English Chinese Date of birth Place of birth Space for photograph Employment Registration Book Number/Service Record Book Number/ Discharge Book Number* This is to certify that the above-named is duly qualified in accordance with the provisions of Schedule 1 to the Merchant Shipping (Seafarers) (Navigational Watch Ratings) Regulation to perform the duties of a rating forming part of a navigational watch, *including experience or training in- (a) the use of gyro compasses; and (b) the changeover from automatic pilot to hand steering and vice versa. .................................................... for Seafarers' Authority. ................................................... Signature of the holder of the certificate. [Office Date Stamp] *Delete as appropriate. (Enacted 1996) Cap 478W Sched 3 [section 5(2) & (6)] MERCHANT SHIPPING (SEAFARERS) (NAVIGATIONAL WATCH RATINGS) REGULATION HONG KONG STEERING CERTIFICATE Surname ............................................... Other names ................................................. Employment Registration Book Number/Service Record Book Number/Discharge Book Number* ........................ Rating ........................................................................................... Usual signature of seafarer .................................................................................................... 1. This is to certify that the above-named seafarer served as .............................................. from ............................. to ................... in the ship ................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................. (Port of Registry ..................................................................................................................) (Gross Tonnage ...................................................................................................................) and during that time took turns at the wheel in steering the ship (apart from periods of instruction) for periods amounting in total to ................... hours (in words). 2. The above-named seafarer obtained experience in the use of the magnetic compass/gyro compass/automatic pilot* during his service in the above-named ship. *Delete as appropriate. ............................................... Signature of Master. ............................................... Date ......................................................... Master's name in block letters. ................................................ Ship's Stamp Note: Under section 4 of Schedule 1 to the Merchant Shipping (Seafarers) (Navigational Watch Ratings) Regulation a rating must have taken turns at the wheel in steering the ship (other than under instruction) for not less than 10 hours in order to be qualified as a Navigational Watch Rating. (Enacted 1996) |