Section 22A:
Licences.
4[22A. Licences.--(1) The State Government may also, 2[if it thinks fit], grant--
(a) to a person who is in possession of a second-class master's certificate granted under
section 21 or section 22, and has, by virtue of such certificate, acted as master of an inland
3[mechanically propelled vessel] having engines of forty or more nominal horse-power for a
period of not less than five years, or
(b) to a person who is in possession of a first-class engine-driver's certificate granted
under section 21 or section 22, or an engine-driver's 5[certificate granted or deemed to be
granted under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 (44 of 1958)] and has, by virtue of such
certificate, served as an engine-driver of an inland 1[mechanically propelled vessel] having
engines of not less than seventy nominal horse-power for five years, for not less than two and
a half years of which period he has been the engine-driver of such vessel within the meaning
of section 26,a licence authorising such person to act as master or engineer, as the case may be, of any
inland 6[mechanically propelled vessel] having engines of one hundred and seventy nominal
horsepower or of such less nominal horse-power 7[as such Government] may deem fit.
(2) Any such licence shall. remain in force only for such time as the person holding the
same is in possession of and entitled to a master's or an engine-driver's certificate, as the case
may be, of the nature referred to in sub-section (1):
Provided that the State Government may, 8[if it thinks fit], suspend, cancel or vary the conditions of
any such licence.]
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 35 of 1977, s. 5, for "steam-vessel" (w.e.f. 1-5-1978).
2. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for "in its discretion".
3. Ins. by s. 7, ibid. (w.e.f. 21-2-2008).
4. Ins. by Act 6 of 1920, s. 2.
5. Subs. by Act 35 of 1977, s. 17, for "certificate granted under the Indian Merchant Shipping Act, 1859 (1 of 1859), or granted
under, or continued in force by, the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894" (w.e.f. 1-5-1978).
6. Subs. by Act 35 of 1977, s. 5, for "steam-vessel" (w.e.f. 1-5-1978).
7. Subs. by Act 11 of 1923, s. 2 and First Schedule, for "as to such Government.
8. Subs. by the A. 0. 1937, for "in its discretion".