Navigation (Courts of Marine Inquiry) Regulations 1926 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1929. No. 107.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912-1926.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Navigation Act 1912-1926, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this thirteenth day of September, 1929.

STONEHAVEN

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

H. S. GULLETT

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

 

Amendment of Navigation (Courts of Marine Inquiry) Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1926, No. 128, as amended to this date.)

Regulation 31 of the Navigation (Courts of Marine Inquiry) Regulations is amended by omitting therefrom the following:—

“Class 1.—Mercantile Marine Masters—

(a) Persons having five years’ service as a master in the Merchant Service, of which one year must have been service in command of an Australian-trade or foreign-going sailing ship, with a certificate of competency.

(b)Persons having five years’ service as a master in the Merchant Service, of which two years must have been service in command of an Australian-trade or foreign-going steamship, with a certificate of competency.

Class 2.—Mercantile Marine Engineers—

Persons having five years’ service as an engineer in the Merchant Service, of which two years must have been as chief engineer of an Australian-trade or foreign-going steamship.”

and inserting in its stead the following:—

“Class 1.—Mercantile Marine Masters—

(a) Persons having five years’ service in any certificated capacity on a British sailing ship of not less than 1,000 tons gross and in addition two years as certificated master in command of a British sailing ship or steamship.

(b)Persons having five years’ service as master of British vessels of which two years must have been in command of a steamship.

Class 2.—Mercantile Marine Engineers—

Persons having five years’ service as an engineer in a merchant vessel. A candidate for appointment must hold a first-class certificate of competency as engineer in the Mercantile Marine and have had two years’ experience as a chief engineer in vessels of not less than 1,000 tons gross.”

 

By Authority: H. J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra.