Navigation (Life-saving and Fire Appliances) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)
STATUTORY RULES.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912-1926.*
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
Dated this fifteenth day of December, 1934.
ISAAC A. ISAACS
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
EARLE PAGE
Minister of State for Commerce.
Amendment of the Navigation (Life-saving and Fire Appliances) Regulations.
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102c.—(1.) On and after the first day of March, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-five, every steamship (not being a steamship trading on the River Murray or a steamship to which section 231 of the Act applies) engaged in trading with other countries or among the States shall carry—
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a ) an efficient wireless transmitting apparatus, of atype approved by the Minister, capable, when put in operation at any time when the ship is in distress and requires assistance from other vessels or from the shore, of automatically transmitting, on the frequency of 500 kilocycles (600 metres) the following Morse signals and messages:—(i) the Alarm Signal, that is to say, a signal sent by wireless telegraphy in the Morse code consisting of a series of twelve dashes, each of four seconds duration, transmitted in one minute, with an interval of one second between each dash;
(ii) the Distress Call, consisting of—
the Distress Signal, namely—the letters SOS (– – – — — — – – –) made as one sign, and sent three times; and
the word DE and the call signal of the ship in distress, sent three times;
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* Notified in the
Commonwealth Gazette on 17th December, 1934.Statutory Rules 1925, No. 50, as amended by Statutory Rules 1925, No. 86; 1930, No. 18; and 1931, No. 95.
5837.—Price 3d.
(iii) the Distress Message, consisting of—
the Distress Signal, namely the letters SOS (– – – — — — – – –) made as one sign, and sent three times;
the word DE;
the call signal of the ship in distress, sent three times; and
the approximate position in which the ship is; and
(iv) (for use when the danger is passed or satisfactory assistance has arrived) a message that no further assistance is required; and
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b ) an efficient wireless receiving apparatus capable of receiving, on any frequency within the band 1500 to 375 kilocycles (200 to 800 metres), wireless telephone weather reports and storm warnings and (following on any despatch of the distress message) replies from shore and ship stations as to steps being taken to provide assistance.
(2.) The transmitting apparatus shall be capable of—
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a ) transmitting, by day, under normal conditions, clearly perceptible signals over a range of not less than 100 nautical miles; and(
b ) maintaining continuous and efficient operation for a period of at least six hours.
(3.) The receiving apparatus shall be capable of continuous and efficient operation for a period of at least six hours.
(4.) Any stoamship to which the preceding sub-regulations of this regulation apply may carry, at the option of the owner, in lieu of the apparatus prescribed by those sub-regulations either a wireless telegraph or a wireless telephone apparatus (which shall be in charge of a competent person, who may be an officer or other member of the crew) which, in the opinion of the Director, is not less efficient, for the purpose of summoning assistance when the ship is in distress, than the apparatus referred to in those sub-regulations.”.
By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
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