Colonial Light Dues Regulations (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1934. No. 128.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE COLONIAL LIGHT DUES COLLECTION ACT 1932-1934.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL, in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Colonial Light Dues Collection Act 1932-1934, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this seventeenth day of October, 1934.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

FRED. H. STEWART

Minister of State for Commerce.

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Colonial Light Dues Regulations.

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Colonial Light Dues Regulations.

Interpretation.

2. In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Colonial Light Dues Collection Act 1932-1934.

Ships deemed to have passed and to have derived benefit from lighthouses or buoys.

3.—(1.) A ship shall be deemed to have passed, and to have derived benefit from, a lighthouse or from the buoy specified in the first part of the Schedule to the Act if she has crossed, in either direction, a line drawn from the north-east point of Great Abaca Island to the north-east point of Grand Caicos Island, or has crossed in either direction a line running along the meridian of 79 degrees 40 minutes west longitude between the parallels of 23 degrees north latitude and 27 degrees 40 minutes north latitude, or has passed between either of these lines and any part of the Bahama Islands.

(2.) A ship shall be deemed to have passed, and to have derived benefit from, the lighthouse specified in the second part of the Schedule to the Act if she has crossed in either direction a line drawn from the eastern end of Virgin Gorda in the Virgin Islands to the western end of Anguilla Island.

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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 25th October, 1984.

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By Authority: L.F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

4430.—Price 3d.