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

STATUTORY RULES

1968 No. 30

 

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,

(Sgd.) Ian Sinclair

Minister of State for Shipping and Transport.

 

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

1. After regulation 44 of the Navigation (Examination of Masters and Mates) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Eligibility for examination.

“44a. For the purposes of paragraph (a) of section 17 of the Act, every sub-grade specified in column 2 of the First Schedule to these Regulations after the sub-grade ‘first mate of a foreign-going steamship’ is a prescribed sub-grade.”.

Application for examination.

2. Regulation 45 of the Navigation (Examination of Masters and Mates) Regulations is amended—

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

(b) by inserting after sub-regulation (2.) the following sub-regulation:—

“(2a.) An application to sit for an examination for a certificate of competency of a sub-grade that is, by virtue of the last preceding regulation, a prescribed sub-grade for the purposes of paragraph (a) of section 17 of the Act is not required to be accompanied by the documentary evidence referred to in paragraph (b) of the last preceding sub-regulation.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1968.

  Statutory Rules 1964, No. 34, as amended by Statutory Rules 1967, No. 64. 

 

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

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