Navigation (Construction) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORYRULES

1970 No.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912-1970.*

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 1912-1970.

Dated this sixth day of November, 1970.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(SGD.) IAN SINCLAIR

Minister of State for Shipping and Transport.

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Amendments of the Navigation (Construction) Regulations

Repeal.

1. Regulation 3 of the Navigation (Construction) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the word “sub-regulation (3.)” and inserting in its stead the word “sub-regulation (2.)”.

Requirements with respect to doors in structural bulkheads.

2. Regulation 269a of the Navigation (Construction) Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting in sub-regulation (1.), before the word “door”, the word “sliding”; and

(b) by omitting sub-regulation (2.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(2.) A sliding door that is fitted to an opening in a structural bulkhead in a cargo ship shall be fitted with gears on each side of the opening and in an accessible position above the bulkhead deck, being gears each of which is capable of being operated by hand and of opening and closing the door.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  1970.

  Statutory Rules 1968, No . 25 , as amended by Statutory Rules 1968,No. 127.

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