Courts of Marine Inquiry Act 1897 (SA)

ANNO SEXAGESIMO ET SEXAGESIMO PRIM0

VICTORIAE REGINB.

A. D. 1897.

No. 681.

An Act to amend the Law relating to Courts of Marine

Inquiry.

[Assented to, December zrth, 1897.1

E it Enacted by the Governor, with the advice and consent of

B the Parliament of South Australia, as follows:

1, The Court of Marine Inquiry established by section 134 of the court of Marine

Marine Board and Navigation Act, 1881," shall be deemed to be ,,,,,ituted. Inquiry, when

lawfully and properly constituted for all purposes if and whenever a quorum of the said Court shall be present, notwithstanding that members in rotation may not have been summoned. But anything in the '' Marine Board and Navigation Act, 1881," notwithstanding in no case shall more than two assessors sit with a Judge of the Supreme Court or a Special Magistratc on any Court of Marine Inquiry, Should more than two assessors be present the two entitled to sit shall; bc determined by, and bc in accordance with, the order of rotation 'of summoning members fixed by the rules.

2. A list of the names of the assessors of the Court of Marine List of aElseeaofs to be

Inquiry shall, on the first day of January of each year, be corn- piled by the Secretary, and opposite the name of such member the nature of thc special skill possessed by such member, whether nautical ox engineering, shall be specified in such list, and the names on such list shall be arranged in alphabetical order of the surnames of such members, and on or before the fifteenth day of January in each year such lists shall be forwarded to the Governor, and a copy of such list to the President of the Board by the Secretary.

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2 60" & 61" V1CTORIE, No. 681.

Courts of Marine Inquiry Amendmerit Act.-1897.

Court may adjourn

for S quorum.	3. If at the time and place appointed for a session of the said Court a quorum shall not bc present, the President or senior member may adjourn the Court to a convenient time with a view of having
a quorum.

Rules to be laid	4,	All rules made under the '- Marine Board and Navigation Act,
before Parliament.

1881," relating t o Courts of Marine Inquiry shall be laid before

both Houses of Parliament as soon as may be after they are made.

I n the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, I hereby assent to

this Bill.

T. F. BUXTON, Governor.

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Adelaide: By authority, C. E. BBIBTOW, Government Printer, North-terrace.