Statutory
Rules
1974 No. 238
REGULATIONS
UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912-1973.*
I, THE
GOVERNOR-GENERAL of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council,
hereby make the following Regulations under the Navigation Act 1912-1973.
Dated
this fourth day of December, 1974.
JOHN
R. KERR
Governor-General.
By
His Excellency’s Command,
C.
K. JONES
Minister
of State for Transport.
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Amendments
of the Navigation (Life-saving Appliances) Regulations
Interpretation.
1. Regulation 5 of the Navigation (Life-saving Appliances) Regulations
is amended by omitting from the definition of “Regional Controller” in
sub-regulation (1) the words “Shipping and”.
Lift boats— Class II. ships.
2. Regulation 9 of the Navigation (Life-saving Appliances) Regulations
is amended by omitting from sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (b) of
sub-regulation (4) the words “a liferaft or” and substituting the words “at
least two”.
Number of liferafts to be carried on Class
II, ships.
3. Regulation 30 of the Navigation (Life-saving Appliances)
Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (4) the words “a
liferaft or”.
Construction of lifebuoy self-igniting
lights.
4. Regulation 51 of the Navigation (Life-saving Appliances)
Regulations is amended by omitting paragraph (c) and substituting the following
paragraph:—
“(c) shall have a
luminous intensity of not less than 2 candelas in all directions of the upper
hemisphere; and ".
Rockcet signals.
5. Regulation 58 of the Navigation (Life-saving Appliances)
Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting
sub-regulation (2);
(b) by omitting from
sub-regulations (3) and (4) the words “or flare”; and
(c) by omitting
paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (3).
*
Notified in the Australian Government
Gazette on 6 December 1974.
Statutory
Rules 1968, No. 34.
Altering date of manufacture of rackets
and flares.
6. Regulation 59 of the Navigation (Life-saving Appliances)
Regulations is amended by omitting the words “or flare provided in a ship” and
substituting the words “provided in a ship or on a rocket or flare provided in
a lifeboat or liferaft”.
Warning signals.
7. Regulation 66 of the Navigation (Life-saving Appliances)
Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:—
“66.
A Class I. ship and a Class II. ship shall be furnished with
electrically-operated signals that can be controlled from the bridge for the
purpose of summoning passengers and crew to their muster stations.”.
Emergency electrical installation in Class
II. ships.
8. Regulation 70 of the Navigation (Life-saving Appliances)
Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (b) of
sub-regulation (4) the words “one hundred and fifty degrees Fahrenheit” and
substituting the figures and words “61 degrees Celsius”.
Exemption of certain ships.
9.Regulation 78 of the Navigation (Life-saving
Appliances) Regulations is amended by omitting paragraph (a) and substituting
the following paragraphs:—
“(a) a ship is a Class
I. or a Class II. ship of not less than 500 tons gross registered tonnage,
other than a nuclear ship, engaged on voyages other than international voyages;
(aa) a ship is a Class
I. or a Class II. ship of less than 500 tons gross registered tonnage engaged
on either international or coastal voyages;
(ab) a ship is a Class
IV. ship; or”.