Navigation (Cargo-Fire Prevention) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1924. No. 91.

 

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 Regulations under the Navigation Act 1912–1920, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-sixth day of June, 1924.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

H. E. PRATTEN,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

 

Amendment of Navigation (Cargo-Fire Prevention) Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1924, No. 70.)

Regulation 6 of the Navigation (Cargo-Fire Prevention) Regulations is amended by adding at the end of sub-regulation (1) thereof the following proviso:—

“Provided that this sub-regulation shall not apply to the discharge, between sunset and sunrise, of a cargo of petroleum oils (of any description) carried out with the approval of the Harbour or other competent authority controlling the discharging of such cargoes first obtained, by pumping from the ship’s tanks to shore through a pipe-line efficiently connected up before sunset.”

 

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