Navigation (Health) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1967 No. 63

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912-1966.*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Navigation Act 1912-1966.

Dated this day of  , 1967.

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Sgd.) GORDON FREETH

Minister of State for Shipping and Transport.

 

Amendments of the Navigation (Health) Regulations 

Prescribed fee for medical examination.

1. Regulation 4 of the Navigation (Health) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1.) the words “Ten shillings” and inserting in their stead the words “One dollar”;

(b) by omitting from paragraph (b)of sub-regulation (1.) the words “One pound ten shillings” and inserting in their stead the words “Three dollars”; and

(c) by omitting from paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (1.) the words “Two shillings and sixpence” and inserting in their stead the words “Twenty-five cents”.

Medicines.

2. Regulation 7 of the Navigation (Health) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “a ship to which sub-section (1.) of section 125 of the Navigation Act 1912-1961 applies is required by that sub-section to be provided” and inserting in their stead the words “a ship to which this regulation applies shall be provided”; and

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

“(4.) This regulation applies to a ship—

(a) to which sub-section (1.) of section 125 of the Navigation Act 1912-1966 applies; and

(b) to which section. 270 of that Act applies, not being a ship referred to in the last preceding paragraph.”.

3. After regulation 7 of the Navigation (Health) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Ships to which section 270 ofAct applies not to be taken to sea without medicines, &c.

“7aa.—(1.) The master of a ship to which section 270 of the Navigation Act 1912-1966 applies, not being a ship to which sub-section (1.) of section 125 of that Act applies, shall not take the ship to sea, and the owner or agent of the ship shall not permit the ship to be taken to sea, unless the ship is provided, in accordance with the last preceding regulation, with medicines, medical and surgical stores and appliances and anti-scorbutics and such other items as it is required to carry by virtue of that regulation.

Penalty: Two hundred dollars.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1967.

  Statutory Rules 1962, No. 72, as amended by Statutory Rules 1965, No. 106.

4266/67—Price 5c  9/19.4.1967

“(2.) It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against the last preceding sub-regulation if the person charged with the offence satisfies the court in which the prosecution is brought that his failure to comply with the sub-regulation was not due to any act or default on his part.”.

Medical cabinets.

4. Regulation 7a of the Navigation (Health) Regulations is amended by omitting the words “of the Navigation Act 1912-1965 applies is required to be provided under the last preceding regulation” and inserting in their stead the words “or section 270 of the Navigation Act 1912-1966 applies is required to be provided under regulation 7 of these Regulations”.

 

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