Navigation (Compass) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1954. No. 25

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912-1953.*

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 1912-1953.

Dated this twenty-sixth day of March, 1954.

W. J. SLIM

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Shipping and Transport.

 

Amendments of the Navigation (Compass) Regulations. 

1. Regulations 16 and 17 of the Navigation (Compass) Regulations are repealed and the following regulation is inserted in their stead:—

Fees for adjustment.

“17.—(1.) Subject to this regulation, there is payable to an adjuster of compasses for his services in examining, or examining and adjusting, the compasses of a ship, by the person who requested those services, a fee determined, according to the gross registered tonnage of the ship, in accordance with the following table:—

Gross Registered Tonnage of Ship.	Fee.
£	s.	d.
Not exceeding 250 tons..........................................................................................	5	5	0
Exceeding 250 tons, but not exceeding 1,000 tons....................................................	6	6	0
Exceeding 1,000 tons, but not exceeding 3,000 tons.................................................	8	8	0
Exceeding 3,000 tons.............................................................................................	12	12	0

“(2.) A fee is not payable under the last preceding sub-regulation in respect of the services of an adjuster of compasses unless the Deputy Director—

(a) issues a certificate in accordance with Form C5 in respect of those services; or

(b) certifies that the adjuster performed those services.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1954.

  Statutory Rules 1944, No. 178, as amended by Statutory Rules 1950, No. 60.

4630.—Price 3d. 9/27.1.1954.

“(3.) Where a person requests the services of an adjuster of compasses in respect of the compasses of a ship and the adjuster attends on board the ship for the purpose of performing those services at a time appointed by that person but, for any reason, the ship does not, within half an hour of that time, get under way in order to proceed to the place or area at or in which the services are to be performed, there is payable to the adjuster by that person—

(a) an amount calculated at the rate of One pound one shilling for each hour, or part of an hour, of the period during which the adjuster is, as a consequence of the failure of the ship to get under way, delayed in the performance of his services; or

(b) the amount of Four pounds four shillings,

whichever is the less.

“(4.) In addition to any amount to which he is entitled under the preceding provisions of this regulation, there is payable to an adjuster of compasses by a person who requests his services in respect of the compasses of a ship a sum equal to the amount of any travelling expenses necessarily incurred by the adjuster in proceeding to and from the ship for the purpose of performing those services.”.

Adjuster employed as master or mate.

2. Regulation 18 of the Navigation (Compass) Regulations is amended by omitting the words “have his name on the list of practising adjusters, nor to” and inserting in their stead the words “practise as an adjuster of compasses or”.

Repeal of regulations 19 and 20.

3. Regulations 19 and 20 of the Navigation (Compass) Regulations are repealed.

The Schedule.

4. The Schedule to the Navigation (Compass) Regulations is amended by omitting Form C9.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.