Navigation (Danger Calls) Regulations 1921 (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1921. No. 93.

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 on and from the first day of July, 1921.

Dated this twenty-eighth day of April, 1921.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. MASSY GREENE,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

Navigation (Danger Calls) Regulations 1921.

Short title.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Navigation (Danger Calls) Regulations 1921.

Reports of dangers to navigation.

Sec. 269A.

2. The master of a ship registered in Australia or of a ship (whether British or foreign) engaged in the coasting trade, who is informed of (otherwise than by wireless message sent out in conformity with these Regulations), or who meets with, any dangerous ice, dangerous derelict, or other imminent and serious danger to navigation on or near his course (including any development of a cyclonic disturbance or typhoon, sudden and serious changes in position or form of, or the disappearance of, any fixed obstruction, lightbuoy or beacon, and the extinguishing or serious impairment of the light of any ocean lighthouse or lightship) shall—

(a)if the ship is fitted with wireless, immediately send out the danger call specified in Schedule IV. to the Navigation Act 1912-1920, followed, as provided in that Schedule, by a message conveying the information required to be communicated under these Regulations; or

(b)if the ship is not fitted with wireless, at the earliest opportunity communicate, by international Code Signals, if during daylight, or by Morse Code, if at night, the information to other ships in the vicinity or which he meets and to the first signal station on shore to which he approaches within signalling distance, and through that signal station make a report to the Director of Navigation communicating the information.

Entry in log book.

3. The master shall enter in the official log book a record of—

(a) all new dangers to navigation observed;

(b) all messages or information received in regard to other new dangers; and

(c) all messages and reports sent in regard to such dangers, with, in each case, the hour and minute and the position of the ship at the time.

Particulars to be communicated.

4. (1) The information required to be communicated under these Regulations shall include—

(a)in the case of dangerous ice, dangerous derelict, or other obstruction constituting an imminent and serious danger to navigation—

(i) information as to the kind of ice, or nature of the derelict or other danger observed or informed of;

(ii) information as to the position of the ice, derelict other obstruction when last determined; and

(iii) if the danger reported is afloat and likely to change position, information as to the direction and force of the wind and the set and velocity of the current; and

(b)in the case of cyclonic disturbances or typhoons, information as to the direction and force of the wind and the bearing of the storm centre.

(2) In all cases the message shall conclude with the name of the master and the call signal of the ship.

Transmission of reports by shore stations

5. The officer in charge of a Commonwealth wireless station, or of a signal station, shall, on receiving any report sent in accordance with these Regulations, immediately transmit the information, by telephone if practicable or, if not, by urgent telegram, to the Deputy Director of Navigation for the State or other official designated by the Director of Navigation as the person to whom the messages should be transmitted.

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