Lighthouses and Light Dues Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1987 No. 2571

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Lighthouses and Light Dues Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Lighthouses Act 1911.

Dated 29 October 1987.

J. A. ROWLAND

Administrator

By His Excellency’s Command,

PETER DUNCAN

Minister of State for Land Transport

and Infrastructure Support

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Vessels exempted

Regulation 20 of the Lighthouses and Light Dues Regulations is amended:

(a) by omitting from paragraph (1) (i) “or” (last occurring);

(b) by adding at the end of subregulation (1) the following word and paragraph:

“; or (k) a sailing ship the tonnage of which is less than 500.”; and

(c) by omitting subregulations (2), (3) and (4) and substituting the following subregulation:

“(2) In this regulation:

‘Load Line Convention’ has the same meaning as in Part IV of the Navigation Act 1912;

‘tonnage length’, in relation to a ship, means the length of the ship for the purposes of the Load Line Convention as in force at the commencement of this subregulation with respect to Australia.”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 6 November 1987.

2. Statutory Rules 1952 No. 79 as amended by 1956 No. 64; 1957 No. 59; 1962 No. 87; 1963 No. 99; 1965 No. 137; 1967 No. 132; 1968 No. 109; 1969 No. 108; 1970 No. 138; 1971 Nos. 18 and 129; 1972 No. 154; 1973 No. 195; 1976 No. 211; 1977 No. 173; 1982 No. 242; 1983 No. 212; 1986 No. 179.