Navigation (Examination of Engineers) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1968 No. 29

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912-1967.*

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 1912-1967.

Dated this twentieth day of March, 1968.

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Sinclair

Minister of State for Shipping and Transport.

 

Amendments of the Navigation (Examination of Engineers) Regulations 1964

1. After regulation 33 of the Navigation (Examination of Engineers) Regulations 1964 the following regulation is inserted:—

Eligiblity for examination.

“33a. For the purposes of paragraph (a) of section 17 of the Act, each of the following sub-grades is a prescribed sub-grade:—

(a) second class engineer of a steamship;

(b) second class engineer of a motorship;

(c) second class engineer, steamship and motorship.”.

Application for examination.

2. Regulation 34 of the Navigation (Examination of Engineers) Regulations 1964 is amended—

(a)by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the words “The application” and inserting in their stead the words “Subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, the application”;

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

“(a) documentary evidence of the candidate’s nationality;

(aa) if the candidate is not a British subject—documentary evidence that he has been continuously resident in the Commonwealth since a date at least one year before the date of the examination and that he intends to continue so to reside until at least the date of the examination;”; and

(c) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(3.) An application to sit for an examination for a certificate of competency of a sub-grade referred to in the last preceding regulation is not required to be accompanied by the documentary evidence referred to in paragraph (aa) of the last preceding sub-regulation.”.

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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1968.

  Statutory Rules 1964, No. 33, as amended by Statutory Rules 1965, No. 109.

6560/67—Price 5c

Declaration covering twelve months preceding application.

3. Regulation 37 of the Navigation (Examination of Engineers) Regulations 1964 is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the words “One hundred pounds” and inserting in their stead the words “Two hundred dollars”.

Exemptions.

4. Regulation 48 of the Navigation (Examination of Engineers) Regulations 1964 is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (4.) the words “, subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation,”; and

(b) by omitting sub-regulation (5.).

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra