PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES, CODES & ISSUANCES
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REPUBLIC ACTS
AN ACT EXEMPTING FROM THE TECHNICAL
EXAMINATION APPLICANTS FOR CERTIFICATE AS THIRD MATES WHO ARE GRADUATES
OF THE PHILIPPINE NAUTICAL SCHOOL WHO HAVE SERVED AS AGREGADO A PILOTO
IN A SEAGOING SAILING VESSEL OR IN A SEAGOING STEAMER, BY AMENDING
SUBSECTION (d) OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-ONE OF THE REVISED
ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
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"(d)
Third mate: An applicant for a certificate as third mate shall be not
less than nineteen years of age and shall produce a certificate of
graduation from the Philippine Nautical School or from any other
officially recognized nautical school after having completed the second
year high school or its equivalent, and shall further be required to
present to the Board evidence, satisfactory to it, showing that he has
served as an apprentice mate, at least eighteen months in a seagoing
sailing vessel, or at least twenty-four months in a seagoing steam or
motor vessel. Major patrons who on the approval of this Act were acting
as masters on vessels of two hundred tons or over may apply for
examination for a third mate's certificate after two years of such
service: Provided, That apprentice mates who are actually navigating as
such on or prior to the approval of this Act shall be required to
present to the Board evidence, satisfactory to it, showing that they
have successfully passed the second year high school or its equivalent
in any recognized school, and that they have shipped or acted as
agregado a piloto for at least two years on a seagoing vessel:
Provided, further, That an applicant producing a certificate of
graduation from the Philippine Nautical School who has served as
agregado a piloto for at least eighteen months in a seagoing sailing
vessel or at least twenty-four months in a seagoing steamer, shall, in
order to obtain a certificate as third mate, not be required to take a
technical examination, but shall be required to undergo a physical
examination and produce all other evidence relative to his habits and
character, and that this provision shall be applicable to the students
of the Nautical School completing their studies in or before the school
year nineteen hundred and forty-eight to nineteen hundred and
forty-nine." robles virtu
Sec. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved: March 24, 1947
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