Navigation (Boat Drills) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1923. No. 54.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912-1920.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Navigation Act 1912-1920, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this sixteenth day of May, 1923.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

R. V. WILSON,

For Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

 

Amendment of Navigation (Boat Drills) Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1923, No. 20.)

Regulation 11 of the Navigation (Boat Drills) Regulations is amended by omitting therefrom sub-regulation (2) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(2) These duties shall include—

(a) the warning of the passengers, instructing them to suitably clothe themselves, and seeing that their life-jackets are worn, properly adjusted, and secured;

(b) the assembling of the passengers at a suitable place or places (which may be indicated by painted notices) previously selected by the master as suitable for the particular type of ship and arrangement of the life-boats;

(c) the keeping of order in the passages and on the stairways, and generally controlling the movements of the passengers;

(d) the care and lighting of emergency lamps in passages, stairways and on boat-decks, &c.; and

(e) the collection of additional emergency provisions and blankets ready for placing in the life-boats.”

 

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