Navigation (Fire Appliances) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1983 No. 2771

 

Navigation (Fire Appliances) Regulations2 (Amendment)

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.

Dated 18 November 1983.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Transport

 

Commencement

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on 18 November 1983.

Principal Regulations

2. In these Regulations, “Principal Regulations” means the Navigation (Fire Appliances) Regulations.

Interpretation

3. Regulation 5 of the Principal Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:

“(4) For the purposes of these Regulations, a ship shall be deemed to have reached a stage of construction similar to the laying of a keel when —

(a) construction identifiable with the particular ship has begun; and

(b) a portion of the ship, having a mass of not less than—

(i) 50 tonnes; or

(ii) one per cent of the estimated mass of all structural material of the ship as proposed to be completed,

whichever is the lesser, has been fabricated and finally assembled.”.

 

S.R. 308/83 Cat. No. Recommended retail price 20c 12/11.11.1983

Application

4.Regulation 6 of the Principal Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (4) all the words after “Safety Convention ship”; and

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

“(5) A reference in sub-regulation (1) or (2) to a ship shall be read as not including a reference to a ship the keel of which is, or was, laid, or which reaches, or reached, a similar stage of construction, after 24 May 1980.”.

Power of Minister to exempt in certain cases

5. Regulation 7 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (3).

Repeal of regulation 16

6. Regulation 16 of the Principal Regulations is repealed.

Repeal of regulation 30

7. Regulation 30 of the Principal Regulations is repealed.

Repeal of regulation 58

8. Regulation 58 of the Principal Regulations is repealed.

Repeal of regulation 77

9. Regulation 77 of the Principal Regulations is repealed.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 18 November 1983.

2. Statutory Rules 1968 No. 31 as amended by 1970 No. 176; 1975 No. 147; 1978 No. 159.

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