Navigation (Deck Cargo and Live Stock) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1948. No. 20.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912-1942.*

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 1912-1942.

Dated this eleventh day of February, 1948.

W. J. McKell

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Supply and Shipping.

 

Amendments of the Navigation (Deck Cargo and Live Stock) Regulations. 

Application.

1. Regulation 4 of the Navigation (Deck Cargo and Live Stock) Regulations is amended—

(a)by inserting in sub-regulation (1.), after the word “foreign,”, the words “having on board or”;

(b) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (2.) the words “deck cargo or”; and

(c) by inserting in paragraph (d) of sub-regulation (2.), after the word “with”, the words “, if a Deputy Director is satisfied that the requirements of these Regulations also are being substantially complied with”.

Notice of intention to load live stock or deck cargo.

2. Regulation 6 of the Navigation (Deck Cargo and Live Stock) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1.) the figures “10” and inserting in their stead the figure “5”;

(b)by omitting from that paragraph the figures “100” and inserting in their stead the figures “50”;

(c) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (1.) the figures “50” and inserting in their stead the figure “5”; and

(d)by omitting from that paragraph the figures “200” and inserting in their stead the figures “50”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1948.

  Statutory Rules 1926, No. 89, as amended by Statutory Rules 1926, No. 155; 1927, No. 90; 1930, No. 127; and 1934, No. 119.

7884.—Price 3d. 8/9.1.1948.

 

Life saving appliances, &c., to be kept clear.

3. Regulation 12 of the Navigation (Deck Cargo and Live Stock) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following word and paragraph:—

“; or (e) on, or in such a manner as to prevent any person employed on the ship in port having free access in an emergency to, the normal means of escape from a hold or under-deck space in which he is working.”.

Carriage not to obstruct light, ventilation, &c.

4. Regulation 25 of the Navigation (Deck Cargo and Live Stock) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following word and paragraph:—

“; or (g) obstruct the exits or normal means of escape in an emergency, from a hold or under-deck space in which any person is employed whilst the ship is in port.”.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.