Navigation (Examination of Masters and Mates) Regulations 1924 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1926. No. 17.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912–1925.

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 1912–1925, to come into operation on and from the first day of January, 1926.

Dated this twenty-eighth day of January, 1926.

STONEHAVEN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

H. E. PRATTEN,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

 

Amendment of Navigation (Examination of Masters and Mates) Regulations (Statutory Rules 1924, No. 205).

1. Regulation 7 of the Navigation (Examination of Masters and Mates) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting sub-regulation (1) thereof and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(1) A candidate for examination for any certificate specified in Schedule I. (whether a certificate of competency or otherwise) shall pay to the superintendent the examination fee for that certificate set out in that schedule.”;

(b) by omitting from paragraph 4 thereof the word and figures “regulation 33 (15)” and inserting in their stead the words “these Regulations”.

2. The Navigation (Examination of Masters and Mates) Regulations are amended by inserting after regulation 31 the following regulation:—

“31a. (1) Candidates for Certificates as 2nd Mate of foreign-going vessels who cannot produce an approved Certificate of Efficiency as Life-boatman, as required by regulation 38 (c), must undergo a practical Life-boat examination conducted by an officer of the Navigation Service.

(2) Application for the Life-boat examination should be made in the proper form, obtainable at all Mercantile Marine Offices, and lodged with the Superintendent together with the candidate’s Form of Application for examination for a Certificate of Competency as Second Mate.

C.1078.—Price 3d.

 

(3) The fee paid for examination for a Certificate of Competency as 2nd Mate will cover the examination for a Certificate of Efficiency as Life-boatman, but if the candidate fails to pass for the latter certificate, the fee, less a deduction of 10s., shall be returned to him. Failure to pass will not entail any penalty in the form of further sea service.

(4) The examination for a Certificate of Efficiency as Life-boatman shall also, on application being made in the proper form and payment of the fee prescribed for Examination for a Life-boatman’s Certificate in Schedule I of these Regulations, be open to the following persons, viz., deck officers; engineers, surgeons, and pursers who have served at sea for at least six months; apprentices and deck ratings who have served at sea for at least one year, and who are not less than eighteen years of age; and stewards and firemen who have served at sea for at least two years and who are not less than twenty years of age. The fee shall be payable on each occasion that a candidate is examined.”

3. Schedule I. to the Navigation (Examination of Masters and Mates) Regulations is amended by inserting at the end of the table headed “Fees for Other Certificates” the words and figures—

“Certificate of Efficiency as Life-boatman.................................................... £0 10 0.”

 

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