Navigation (Health) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1955. No. 62.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912-1953.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Navigation Act 1912-1953.

Dated this thirteenth day of September, 1955.

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Shipping and Transport.

 

Amendment of the Navigation (Health) Regulations. 

Regulation 2 of the Navigation (Health) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Fees for medical examinations.

“2.—(1.) The fees payable to the Superintendent by an applicant for the examination of a seaman or an apprentice by a Medical Inspector of Seamen are—

(a) where the examination is made at a time when the Mercantile Marine Office is open for general business—Seven shillings and six pence;

(b) where the examination is made at a time when the Mercantile Marine Office is not open for general business—One pound ten shillings; and

(c) subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, for each mile or part of a mile necessarily travelled by a Medical Inspector of Seamen for the purpose of making the examination and returning to his surgery after making the examination—Two shillings and six pence.

“(2.) The fee prescribed by paragraph (c) of the last preceding sub-regulation is not payable in respect of an examination made by a Medical Inspector of Seamen who is an officer or employee of the Public Service of the Commonwealth.

“(3.) For the purposes of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation, ‘the Mercantile Marine Office’ means—

(a) in relation to an examination made at a port at which a Mercantile Marine Office is established—that Mercantile Marine Office; and

(b)in relation to an examination made at a port at which a Mercantile Marine Office is not established—the office of the Collector at that port.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1955.

  Statutory Rules 1935, No. 13, as amended by Statutory Rules 1935, No. 76; 1936, No. 42; and 1953, No. 29.

 

Printed for the Government of the Commonwealth by A. J. Arthur at the Government Printing Office, Canberra.

1610/55.—Price 3d. 9/13.4.1955.