Navigation (Compass) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1983 No. 2751

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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 18 November 1983.

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 18 November 1983.

Principal Regulations

2. In these Regulations, "Principal Regulations" means the Navigation (Compass) Regulations.

Interpretation

3. Regulation 3 of the Principal Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting "of Transport" from the definition of "approved person" in sub-regulation (1) and substituting ", being an office"; and

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

"(4) A reference in these Regulations to Marine Orders is a reference to orders made under the Navigation (Orders) Regulations as in force from time to time.".

Repeal of regulations 6, 6A, 6B and 6C

4. Regulations 6, 6A, 6B and 6C of the Principal Regulations are repealed.

Examination and adjustment of compasses

5. Regulation 7 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph 7 (2) (b) "the Navigation (Survey) Regulations" and substituting "Marine Orders, Part 21 (Equipment—Navigational), as in force from time to time, ".

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 18 November 1983.

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.