Procedure by candidates for examination

(1) When any person desires to act as a licensed measurer, the following procedure shall be adopted, (a) he shall apply in writing to the Chief Forest Officer to be examined as to his capability and fitness to act as a licensed measurer with accuracy and shall pay into the Treasury a fee of five dollars; (b) when the application is duly made and the prescribed fee paid, the Chief Forest Officer shall proceed to examine the person making such application, and if in the opinion of the Chief Forest Officer such is competent to act as a licensed measurer, he shall sign and deliver to such person a certificate in the form set out in the First Schedule; (c) upon the applicant making the declaration set out in the Second Schedule, and upon his forwarding his certificate from the Chief Forest Officer and the declaration to the Permanent Secretary with a request in writing to be duly licensed as a measurer of wood, the Minister may issue a licence in the form set out in the Third Schedule, which licence shall be delivered by the Permanent Secretary to the licensee as soon as he has entered into a bond to the Government in the sum of one thousand dollars with two good and sufficient sureties before the Registrar General for the performance of his duties. (2) No person licensed under this Act or any prior legislation shall be permitted to act as a licensed measurer unless and until his certificate and licence are recorded in the General Registry, and the Registrar General shall take and 6 Measures of Wood receive a fee of dollars to be paid into the Treasury for recording it. (3) Every person licensed under this Act or any prior legislation shall pay an annual licence duty of one hundred and fifty dollars and shall obtain a receipt for such payment which shall entitle the licensed measurer to act as such until 31st December next ensuing. (4) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the General Registry Act, Cap. 327, the Registrar General may receive without proof of execution and record any certificate and licence as mentioned in this section. bond.