Navigation (Construction) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1984 No. 2101

 

Navigation (Construction) 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 23 August 1984.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Sgd) Peter Morris

Minister of State for Transport

 

Interpretation

1. Regulation 4 of the Navigation (Construction) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1) the definition of “length”.

2. After regulation 4 of the Navigation (Construction) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Length of ship

“4a. (1) A reference in these Regulations to the length of a ship, being a ship that is a passenger ship, shall be read as a reference to the length measured between the perpendiculars at the extremities of the deepest subdivision load waterline of the ship.

“(2) A reference in these Regulations to the length of a ship, being a ship that is a cargo ship, shall be read as a reference to—

(a) a distance equal to 96 per cent of the total length of the ship measured on a waterline that is—

(i) in the case of a ship other than a ship referred to in sub-paragraph (ii) or (iii) at a distance, from the top of the keel, equal to 85 per cent of the least moulded depth of the ship;

 

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(ii) in the case of a wood ship or a composite ship—at a distance, from the lower edge of the keel rabbet, equal to 85 per cent of the least moulded depth of the ship; or

(iii) in the case of a ship in which the form at the lower part of the midship section is of a hollow character or in which thick garboards are fitted—at a distance, from the point where the line of the flat of the bottom continued inwards cuts the side of the keel of the ship, equal to 85 per cent of the least moulded depth of the ship; or

(b) if the distance measured from the fore side of the stem to the axis of the rudder stock on that waterline is greater than the distance applicable under paragraph (a)—that greater distance.

“(3) In the case of a cargo ship designed with a rake of keel, the waterline on which the total length of the ship is to be measured for the purposes of sub-regulation (2) shall be parallel to the designed waterline.”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 30 August 1984.

2. Statutory Rules 1968 No. 25 as amended by 1968 No. 127; 1970 No. 177; 1974 No. 239; 1976 No. 274; 1977 Nos. 226 and 263; 1979 No. 190; 1983 No. 276.

 

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