Navigation (Compass) Regulations 1944 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1959. No. 44

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912-1956.*

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 1912-1956.

Dated this twenty-sixth day of June, 1959.

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Shipping and Transport.

 

Amendments of the Navigation (Compass) Regulations. 

Definitions.

1. Regulation 3 of the Navigation (Compass) Regulations is amended by omitting the definition of “the Minister”.

2. Regulation 5 of the Navigation (Compass) Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (1.) the words “Board of Trade” and inserting in their stead the words “Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation”.

3. Regulation 6 of the Navigation (Compass) Regulations is repealed and the following regulations are inserted in its stead:—

Ships to be provided with compasses.

“6.—(1.) Subject to this regulation, a ship shall be provided with—

(a) a magnetic compass for use as a steering compass sited on the centre line of the ship at the normal steering position;

(b)a magnetic compass for use as a standard compass sited on the centre line of the ship in a position near the normal steering position from which the view of the horizon is least obstructed; and

(c) where an alternative steering position is provided—a magnetic compass sited on the centre line of the ship at that alternative steering position.

“(2.) A compass is not required to be provided in a ship in pursuance of paragraph (a) of the last preceding sub-regulation if—

(a) the compass provided in the ship in pursuance of paragraph (b) of that sub-regulation—

(i) is of the reflector or projector type;

(ii) can be read from the normal steering position; and

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 26 June, 1959.

  Statutory Rules 1944, No. 178, as amended by Statutory Rules 1950, No. 60; and 1954, No. 25.

3840/58.—Price 3d. 9/27.5.1959.

 

(iii) where a compass is provided in the ship in pursuance of paragraph (c) of the last preceding sub-regulation—is interchangeable with that compass; and

(b)a gyroscopic compass is provided in the ship, being a compass a card of which, or a card of a repeater of which, can be read from the normal steering position.

“(3.) The compass, if any, provided in a ship in pursuance of paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation shall, together with its gimbal units, be interchangeable with the compass, if any, provided in the ship in pursuance of paragraph (a) of that sub-regulation.

“(4.) There shall be provided in a ship in which only one magnetic compass is carried a spare compass bowl and card.

“(5.) Where the Director is satisfied, in the case of a ship of less than five hundred tons gross registered tonnage, that it is unnecessary to provide more than one compass in the ship, he may, by writing under his hand, exempt the ship from the requirement of paragraph (a)of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation.

Mountings of magnetic compasses.

“6a.—(1.) Subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, every magnetic compass in a ship shall be mounted on a binnacle.

“(2.) The alternative steering compass of a ship may be mounted on a pedestal.

Magnetic standard compasses to be furnished with appliances for taking bearings.

“6b. A magnetic compass provided in a ship for use as a standard compass in pursuance of these Regulations shall be furnished with appliances for the taking of accurate observations and bearings.”.

Conditional exemption.

4. Regulation 8 of the Navigation (Compass) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting the proviso; and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(2.) The compasses of a ship in respect of which an exemption is in force under the last preceding sub-regulation shall, from time to time, be examined, and, where necessary, adjusted, by an adjuster of compasses but so that the period between two successive examinations shall not exceed two years or, in a special case, such additional period, not exceeding three months, as the Deputy Director permits.”.

Issue of licences to compass adjusters.

5. Regulation 12 of the Navigation (Compass) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “Board of Trade” (wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead the words “Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation”.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.