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

STATUTORY RULES.

1933. No. 123.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912-1926.

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 1912-1926, to come into operation as on and from the first day of October, 1933.

Dated this first day of November, 1933.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

F. H. STEWART

Minister of State for Commerce.

 

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

(Statutory Rules 1931, No. 20, as amended by Statutory Rules 1932, No. 14.)

1. The Navigation (Examination of Masters and Mates) Regulations are amended by inserting after regulation 28 the following regulation:—

Certificates of Efficiency as Lifeboatman.

“28a. (1.) Every candidate for a Certificate of Competency as Second Mate or for his first Limited Coast-Trade Certificate shall, before being examined, either produce a Certificate of Efficiency as Lifeboatman granted under these Regulations or by a competent authority in Great Britain or some other part of the British Dominions or failing to do so shall undergo, and pass in, a practical lifeboat examination conducted by an officer of the Navigation Service.

(2.) Application for a Certificate of Efficiency as Lifeboatman shall be made in the proper form, obtainable at all Mercantile Marine Offices, and lodged with the Superintendent.

 

(3.) The examination for a Certificate of Efficiency as Lifeboatman shall, on application made in the proper form and payment of the fee prescribed in the First Schedule, be open to the following persons, via.:—

(а) any deck or engineer officer; and

(b) any surgeon, wireless operator, purser, apprentice or deck or other rating who has served at sea for at least one year and who is not less than eighteen years of age.

(4.) The fee for examination shall be payable on each occasion on which a candidate is examined.

2. The table “Fees for Other Certificates and for Examination in Single Subjects” in the First Schedule is amended by deleting the figures “0 10 0” appearing opposite the words “Certificate of Efficiency as Lifeboatman only” and inserting in their stead the figures “0 1 0”.

 

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