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Whenever a master or serang, or an engineer or engine-driver, proves, to the satisfaction of the authority which granted his certificate, 1 [or licence] that he has, without fault on his part, lost or been deprived of it, a copy of the certificate 1 [or licence] to which, according to the record kept under section 23, he appears to be entitled shall be granted to him, and shall have the same effect as the original.