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

Statutory Rules

1976 No. 123

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912-1973.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Navigation Act 1912-1973.

Dated this eleventh day of June, 1976.

JOHN R. KERR

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

PETER NIXON

Minister of State for Transport.

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Amendments of the Navigation (Examination of Masters and Mates) Regulations 

Interpretation.

1. Regulation 5 of the Navigation (Examination of Masters and Mates) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1) the definition of “ the Principal Examiner ” and substituting the following definition:—

“ ‘ the Principal Examiner ’ means the person appointed by the Minister to be the Principal Examiner of Masters and Mates, being a person for the time being holding or performing the duties of an office of Marine Education Officer, Grade 2, in the Department of Transport; ”.

Application for examination.

2. Regulation 45 of the Navigation (Examination of Masters and Mates) Regulations is amended by omitting paragraph (1) of sub-regulation (2) and substituting the following paragraphs:—

“(1) any certificate of efficiency as lifeboatman;

(1a) any certificate of satisfactory completion of a course of training in radar observation in merchant ships; and ”.

3. Regulation 52b of the Navigation (Examination of Masters and Mates) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:—

Course of (raining in radar observation.

“ 52b. (1) For the purposes of sub-section 18 (1) of the Act, the prescribed qualifications for the holder of a certificate of competency as—

(a) master of a foreign-going ship;

(b) first mate of a foreign-going ship;

 

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 22 June 1976.

  Statutory Rules 1964, No. 34, as amended by Statutory Rules 1967, No. 64; 1968, No. 30; 1969, Nos. 111, 145 and 211; and 1972, No. 30.

 

(c) second mate of a foreign-going ship;

(d) master of a limited coast-trade ship; or

(e) first mate of a limited coast-trade ship,

include the satisfactory completion by the applicant of an approved course of training in radar observation undertaken by the applicant after he has performed 2 years’ qualifying sea service or such less service as is approved by the Principal Examiner.

“ (2) For the purposes of sub-regulation (1), each of the following courses of training is an approved course of training in radar observation:—

(a) a course of training in radar observation in merchant ships that is conducted by a school approved by the Minister for the purposes of this regulation;

(b) a course of training in radar observation in merchant ships that is of a standard not lower than the standard of a course referred to in paragraph (a).”.

Third Schedule.

4. The Third Schedule to the Navigation (Examination of Masters and Mates) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from the first column of Part I the words “ Lighthouse tender belonging to the Department of Shipping and Transport ” and substituting the words “ Ship operated by the Department of Transport for servicing aids to marine navigation ”; and

(b) by omitting from the first column of Part II the words “ Lighthouse tender belonging to the Department of Shipping and Transport ” and substituting the words “ Ship operated by the Department of Transport for servicing aids to marine navigation ”.

Fifth Schedule.

5. The Fifth Schedule to the Navigation (Examination of Masters and Mates) Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (a) of item (1) of Part A of the Written Section of the Syllabus specified in that Schedule the words “ notices in the ‘ M ’ series issued by the Ministry of Transport, or by the Board of Trade, of the United Kingdom ” and substituting the words “ Merchant Shipping Notices in the ‘ M ’ series issued on behalf of the government of the United Kingdom ”.

Twelfth Schedule.

6. The Twelfth Schedule to the Navigation (Examination of Masters and Mates) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from Form 2 the words “ Shipping and ”;

(b) by omitting from Form 3 the words “ Shipping and ” (wherever occurring); and

(c) by omitting from Form 4 the words “ Shipping and ” (wherever occurring).