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

STATUTORY RULES.

1924. No. 168.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912-1920.

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 1912-1920, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twelfth day of November, 1924.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

H. E. PRATTEN,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

 

Amendment of Navigation (Courts of Marine Inquiry) Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1923, No. 85, as amended by Statutory Rules 1923, Nos. 147 and 175, and Statutory Rules 1924, Nos. 24 and 33.)

The Navigation (Courts of Marine Inquiry) Regulations are amended by inserting, after regulation 5, the following regulation:—

Charges against masters or officers.

“5a. (1.) Charges of incompetency, misconduct, or failure of duty on the part of masters or officers of ships, in the cases specified in sub-section (1.) of section three hundred and sixty-four of the Act, may be made by the Director.

(2.) A copy of any charge made under this regulation by the Director shall be forwarded by him to the Minister.”

 

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