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(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 the Merchant Shipping Act 1948.
(3) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
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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.
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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
