Navigation (Grain, Coal and Ballast) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1925. No. 182.

 

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 forthwith.

Dated this twenty-eighth day of October, 1925.

STONEHAVEN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

H. E. PRATTEN,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

 

Amendment of Navigation (Grain Coal and Ballast) Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1923, No. 135, as amended by Statutory Rules 1925, No. 97.)

1. Regulation 35 of the Navigation (Grain, Coal and Ballast) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—

“(1). Where grain is carried in bags, fore and aft shifting boards shall be fitted, to the satisfaction of the surveyor, as follows:—

(a) Steamships having more than one deck.—Shifting boards must be fitted from deck to deck in the top compartment of the hold in which grain is loaded. In special cases, provided for in regulation 5a of these Regulations, the Deputy Director in addition may require shifting boards to be fitted in the next lower compartment, extending 6 feet downwards from the deck;

(b) Sailing ships having more than one deck.—Shifting boards must be fitted from deck to deck in the top compartment of the hold in which grain is loaded, and also 6 feet downwards from the deck in the next lower compartment; and

(c) Single deck vessels (including vessels without laid ‘tween decks).—Shifting boards must be fitted 8 feet downwards from the freeboard deck, or to a distance of one-third of the registered depth of the hold, whichever is the less.

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“(1a). When grain in bags is carried in a poop or bridge deck space, fore and aft shifting boards, fitted from deck to deck, shall be provided.”

2. Regulation 38 of the Navigation (Grain, Coal and Ballast) Regulations is amended by the omission of paragraph (b) of the proviso thereto.

3. Regulation 42 of the Navigation (Grain, Coal and Ballast) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (3) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(3). In the case of sailing ships, fore and aft shifting boards of not less than 2 inches in thickness shall be fitted, to the satisfaction of the surveyor, as follows:—

(a)In vessels having more than one deck, the shifting boards shall be fitted from deck to deck in the top compartment of the hold in which the coal is loaded, and 4 feet downwards from the deck in the next lower compartment; and

(b) In single deck vessels, or vessels without laid ‘tween decks, the shifting boards shall be fitted 8 feet downwards from the freeboard deck, or for a distance of one-third the registered depth of hold, whichever is the less.”

 

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