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Section 7 in The Merchant Shipping (Examination Of Engineers In The Merchant) Navy Rules, 1963
7. Service as Apprentice Engineer or Fitter.
- A candidate must have performed satisfactory service for not less than four years as apprentice engineer or eight years as fitter (including apprenticeship in the trade) on work suitable for the training of a marine engineer in the manufacture or maintenance of machinery. Not less than one of these four years' workshop service required as apprentice engineer should have been devoted to fitting, erecting or repairing machinery of a suitable size or description (e.g., work on marine engines, substantial auxiliary machinery and steering gears of a type fitted in ships, or on motive power machinery which has a similar value in the training of marine engineers) either in the works or outside; the remaining three years as apprentice engineer may have been spent on work of this nature or on other suitable work, subject to a time allowance for each type of work, examples of which are specified below :-| Metal turning | Full time up to amaximum of two years. |
| Brass finishing | Full time up to amaximum of one year. |
| Roiler making orrepairing of boilers | Full time up to amaximum of one year. |
| Pattern making | Full time up to amaximum of one year. |
| Planning,slotting, shipping and milling | Full time up to amaximum of one year. |
| Tool room | Full time up to amaximum of one year. |
| Approved schemesof training in the use of hand and small machine tools Smith work | Full time up to amaximum of six months. |
| Coppersmith work | Full time up to amaximum of six months. |
| Welding | Full time up to amaximum of six months. |
| Work in drawingoffice as draughtsman or engineer engaged on arrangement, detailor design | Full time up toone year. When more than one year has been spent in the drawingoffice, only half the additional time will count. |
| Electrical shop orrepair work not already covered above (excluding work of a minornature) | Full time up toone year, additional at half rate. Maximum total 18 months. |