Navigation (Health) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1953. No. 29.

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REGULATION UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912-1952.*

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 1912-1952.

Dated this Thirty first day of March, 1953.

W. J. McKell

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Shipping and Transport.

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Amendment of the Navigation (Health) Regulations. 

Medical examinations of seamen—Fees.

Regulation 2 of the Navigation (Health) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—

S.S. 123 and 132.

“(2.) Where the medical examination is made before or after official hours or on a Saturday, Sunday or holiday, the applicant shall pay, in addition to the fee prescribed by the last preceding sub-regulation, a fee of—

(a)where the examination is made before or after ordinary official hours—One pound one shilling; or

(b)where the examination is made on a Saturday, Sunday or holiday—Two pounds two shillings.

“(3.) For the purposes of this regulation—

‘ordinary official hours’ means the hours during which the Mercantile Marine Office is open for public business on all the days (excluding holidays) of a week from Monday to Friday, inclusive;

‘holiday’ means any day observed as a holiday in the Public Service of the Commonwealth under section 76 of the Public Service Act 1922-1951.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 9th April, 1953.

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

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By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

811.—Price 3d. 9/16.2.1953.