Section 14 in The Merchant Shipping (Examination Of Engineers In The Merchant) Navy Rules, 1963
14. Compensatory Service.
- [Where candidates perform workshop service. prescribed in rule 7, 7A, 8, 8A, 9, 10 or 11, deficiencies in such service as assessed by the Chief Examiner shall be made up either by further workshop service of a suitable nature or by compensatory service on regular watch or on day work at sea. The extent to which the deficiency in workshop service is to be made up shall be decided by the Chief Examiner.] [Substituted by G.S.R. 2703, dated 25th November, 1969.]Compensatory sea service must be performed either (a) on day work as engineer on board foreign-going or home-trade steamships of not less than 66 nominal horse-power and/or motor ships, of not less than, 373 brake horse-power, or (b) on regular watch on such ships as engineer. Time so spent on foreign-going ships will be accepted as having two-thirds of the value of suitable workshop service and on home-trade ships as having four-ninths of that value. No day work at sea performed before the age of 20 will be accepted.(B)Sea Service
