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Ms(exam Of Dredge Driver And Dredge Engineers) Rules,1982

Act Short Title:	The Merchant Shipping Act, 1958
Act ID:	195844
Act Number:	44
Enactment Date:	1958-10-30
Act Year:	1958
Long Title:	An Act to foster the development and ensure the efficient maintenance of an Indian mercantile marine in a manner best suited to serve the national interests and for that purpose to establish a National Shipping Board to provide for the registration, certification, safety and security of Indian ships and generally to amend and consolidate the law relating to merchant shipping.
Enforcement Date:	15-12-1958
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Section 83 : Loss of certificates.

Whenever a person holding a certificate granted under this Act proves to the satisfaction of the Central Government that he has, without fault on his, part, lost or been deprived of such certificate, the Central Government shall on payment of the prescribed fee, cause a copy of the certificate, to which by the record kept in accordance with this Act he appears to be entitled, to be granted to him, and such copy shall have all the effect of the original.

Section 78 : Grade of certificates of competency.

¹[78. Grades of certificates of competency.(1) Certificates of competency shall be granted in accordance with the provisions of this Act for each of the following grades, namely:--

extra Master;

master of a foreign-going ship;

first mate of a foreign-going ship;

second mate of a foreign-going ship;

master of a home-trade ship;

mate of a home-trade ship;

navigational watchkeeping officer;

extra first class engineer;

marine engineer officer class I;

marine engineer officer class II;

marine engineer officer class III;

marine engineer officer class IV;

engine driver of a sea-going ship;

skipper grade I of a fishing vessel;

skipper grade II of a fishing vessel;

mate of a fishing vessel;

engineer of a fishing vessel;

engine driver of a fishing vessel;

dredger master grade I;

dredger master grade II;

dredger mate grade I;

dredger mate grade II;

dredger engineer grade I;

dredger engineer grade II;

dredger driver grade I;

dredger driver grade II.

(2) A certificate of competency granted for any grade of engineer or engine driver shall state whether it entitles the holder to act as engineer of ships or fishing vessels fitted with steam or motor engines or with any other type of engines and the holder shall not be entitled to act as engineer of a ship fitted with a type of engine not stated in the certificate.

(3) Certificates issued to masters, mates and engineers who have to work on board ships carrying dangerous goods shall require endorsement as to the additional qualifications that may be prescribed.

(4) If it appears to the Central Government that certificates of competency for grades, other than those referred to in sub-section (1) may be granted, it may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify the other grades in respect of which certificates of competency may be granted.

(5) A certificate of competency for a foreign-going ship shall be deemed to be of a higher grade than the corresponding certificate of a home-trade ship, and shall entitle the lawful holder thereof to go to sea in the corresponding grade in such home-trade ship; but no certificate for a home-trade ship shall entitle the holder to go to sea as a master or mate of a foreign-going ship.

(6) A certificate of competency as extra master shall be deemed to be of a higher grade than any other certificate of competency as master or mate of a foreign-going ship or a home-trade ship or navigational watch keeping officer.

(7) A certificate of competency as extra first class engineer shall be deemed to be of a higher grade than any other certificate of competency as marine engineer officer, engineer or engine driver of a fishing vessel or engine driver of a sea-going ship.]

1. Subs. by Act 13 of 1987, s. 4, for section 78 (w.e.f. 1-7-1989).

Section 87 : Power to make rules.

¹[87. Power to make rules.--(1) The Central Government may make rules to carry out the provisions of this Part.

(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:--

(a) the form and manner in which a service endorsement shall be made on the certificate of competency of a marine engineer officer class II;

(b) the number of persons and the qualifications they may possess for maintaining watches ²[by different types of ships] at sea or in any port or place;

(c) the conduct of the examination of persons desirous of obtaining certificates of competency and endorsements thereon for the grades falling under section 78;

(d) the qualifications to be required of persons desirous of obtaining certificates of competency for the grades falling under section 78;

(e) the fees to be paid by applicants for examination;

(f) the period for which certificate granted under sub-section (2) of section 79 shall be valid;

(g) the form of such certificates and the manner in which copies of certificates are to be kept and recorded;

(h) the circumstances or cases in which certificates of competency may be cancelled or suspended.]

1. Subs. by s. 8, ibid., for section 87(w.e.f. 1-7-1989).

2. Subs. by Act 63 of 2002, s. 3, for "by a ship"(w.e.f. 1-2-2003).