Navigation (Amendment) Act 1917 (NSW)

XA\ K i A T r o x (a :\i e x i ArEX^r)

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Act Xo. o, 1917

An Act to alter certain rates in connection Avitli George V,,

navi^'ation ; to amend the Ahivigation Act,	No. 5.
IhOl, and the Sydney lla rb o n r T rust and Navigation Am endnient Act, 1908 ; and foi’ ])ur])os('s consequmit thereon and incidental thereto . [Assented to, IS th Se])temher, 1917.]

il it rnneh'd 1)v tlie Kind’s iUost lixcclIriC iMaji'sty,

lativo Council and Lcaislativc Ass('mhly of A'cw 8(mth B 1)V ami -with tlie advice and emmiaii ol' tl'.c Lcii’is-

AA'ales in Tailiamcnt asseml)!ed. and by tlic authority ol:' tlic same, as follows ;—

1 . This Act may he cited as the “ Navigation (Amend- stunt litn.

ment) Act, 1917.” 2 ,

Navigation (Amendment) Act.

George V, 2 . Section fifty-nine of the Navigation Act, 1901, is

No. 5. repealed and the following section substituted there­

Repeal of

s. 59. for :—

P ilo tage	69. (1) There shall he j^aid upon every ship, not hereinafter in tliis Act exempted, on her arrival at and on her departure from any port within the jurisdiction where there is a pilot estahlishment, pilotage rates as follows calculated on the net register tonnage : —
rates.

(a)	Upon every ship on her arrival at and on her departure from any such port in ballast the sum of one penny farthing per ton.
(h)	U])on every shi]) on her arrival at any such ])ort solely for tlu' purpose of refitting or docking the sum of one penny farthing per ton, and on her departure from the jiort after such refitting or docking the sum of one penny farthing per ton : Provided that should the shi])diseliarge or load any cargo or land or take on hoard any passengers in the port for the purpose of or incidental to earning freight or passage money, pilotage rates upon such ship shall he twopence half-penny per ton on her arrival at and on her departure from such port.
(c)	Upon every ship not lieing a ship of war, resorting to any such port solely tor or on account of one or more of the following pur- ])oses or causes, namely, pleasure, or calling for orders, or ctfecting reiiairs, or obtaining provisions or coal to he used in the ship on her voyage or through stress of weather or being otherwise in distress, the sum of one penny farthing per ton on her arrival at and on her do])arture from any such port : Provided that should the ship discharge or load any cargo, or land or take on hoard any passengers in the port for the purpose of or incidental to

. earning freight or passage money, pilotage rates upon such, ship shall be twojience half- jK'iiny per ton on her arrival at and on her departure from such port; and

(̂1)

Appropriation Act.

(d) Upon every ship on her arrival at and on her George V,

departure from any such port under circum­	No. 5.
stances other than those liereinbeforc set forth, the sum of twopence halfpenny 2̂ er ton.

(2) The pilotage rates payable upon every Minimum

ship on her arrival at or lier departure from the port of Sydney or the port of Newcastle shall not l)e less than three pounds, and on her arrival at or departure from any other l̂ort shall not be b‘ss than one pound ten shillings.

(3) No such rates on the arrival at or siaximmii

de2)arture li'om any port of any ship shall exceed

twenty-live pounds in each instance.

3 . Subsection four of section sixty-one of the same amcmiment

Act is amcndc'd by adding at the end of paragra})h (b) of that subsection the words “ ii])on Avhich the pilotage rate is fixed by any such sidodivision at om' pemny farthing p)cr ton.”