Navigation (Life-saving and Fire Appliances) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1931. No. 95.

 

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 Regulation under the Navigation Act 1912-1926, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this thirtieth day of July, 1931.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

L. CUNNINGHAM

for Minister of State for Transport.

 

Amendment of Navigation (Life-saving and Fire Appliances) Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1925, No. 50, as amended by Statutory Rules 1925, No. 86 and Statutory Rules 1930, No. 18.)

The Navigation (Life-saving and Fire Appliances) Regulations are amended by inserting, after regulation 4, the following Regulation:—

Small ships—exemptions and modifications.

“4a. Where the Director is satisfied, as regards a vessel under 100 tons gross register, that any requirement prescribed by these Regulations is, in the special circumstances of the case, unnecessary to secure the safety of the vessel and/or the persons on board, he may, by writing under his hand, exempt the vessel from compliance with that prescribed requirement, or where, on the other hand, he considers that compliance with the prescribed requirements of the Regulations is not sufficient to secure the safety of the vessel and/or of the persons on board, he may, by writing under his hand, require such additional and reasonable provision, for that purpose as he may consider necessary and may specify.”

 

By Authority: H. J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra.

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