Navigation (Compass) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1986 No. 2711

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Navigation (Compass) Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Navigation Act 1912.

Dated 25 September 1986.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command,

PETER MORRIS

Minister of State for Transport

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Commencement

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 October 1986.

Examination fee

2. Regulation 12A of the Navigation (Compass) Regulations is amended by omitting "$129" and substituting "$147".

Fees for adjustment of compasses

3. Regulation 17 of the Navigation (Compass) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting sub-regulation (3) and substituting the following sub-regulation:

"(3) Where, as a result of a request made by the owner, builder, master or agent of a ship, the services of an adjuster of compasses are performed during a period when the office of the Department is not open for public business, there is payable by virtue of this sub-regulation, in addition to any other fee payable—

(a) in a case in which such services by the adjuster of compasses during such a period immediately precede, or immediately

follow, services by the adjuster of compasses in relation to that ship at a time when the office of the Department is open for public business—a fee calculated at the rate of $35 for each whole hour or part of an hour falling within that period during which the adjuster of compasses performs those services; or

(b) in any other case—a fee calculated at the rate of $35 for each whole hour or part of an hour falling within that period during which the adjuster of compasses so performs those services, or a fee of $105, whichever is the greater.";

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (4) all the words after "there is payable," and substituting "in respect of the cancellation, a fee of $108.";

(c) by omitting from sub-regulation (5) all the words after "the rate of" and substituting "$70 for each whole hour, or part of an hour, of the excess is payable by virtue of this sub-regulation in respect of those services."; and

(d) by omitting from sub-regulation (6) "$72" and substituting "$94".

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 30 September 1986.

2. Statutory Rules 1944 No. 178 as amended by 1950 No. 60; 1954 No. 25; 1959 No. 44; 1963 No. 97; 1964 No. 37; 1965 No. 170; 1974 No. 65; 1976 No. 117; 1977 No. 262; 1978 No. 127; 1979 No. 189; 1981 Nos. 286 and 389; 1982 No. 10; 1983 No. 275; 1984 No. 353; 1985 No. 251.