Navigation (Load Lines) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1970 No. 187

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912-1970.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Navigation Act 1912-1970.

Dated this twenty-sixth day of November, 1970.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(SGD.) IAN SINCLAIR

Minister of State for Shipping and Transport.

 

Amendments of the Navigation (Load Lines) Regulations 

Height and standard height of superstructure.

1. Regulation 16 of the Navigation (Load Lines) Regulations is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (3.), after the word “trunk”, the words “in a ship”.

Length of superstructure.

2. Regulation 17 of the Navigation (Load Lines) Regulations is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (5.), after the words “the sides of the ship”, the words “or, if the superstructure is set in from the sides of the ship, to the sides of the superstructure”.

Effective length of enclosed superstructure.

3. Regulation 18 of the Navigation (Load Lines) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the words “by not more than 4 per cent of the breadth of the ship”.

Requirements for hatchways closed by portable covers and tarpaulins.

4. Regulation 25 of the Navigation (Load Lines) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the figures “2¼” and inserting in their stead the figures “2⅛”.

Machinery space openings.

5. Regulation 30 of the Navigation (Load Lines) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (4.) the word “Coamings” and inserting in its stead the words “Subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, coamings”; and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(5.) The height above the deck of the coamings of any fiddley, funnel or machinery space ventilator in an exposed position on the freeboard deck or superstructure deck of a ship shall not be less than—

(a) if the fiddley, funnel or machinery space ventilator is in position 1 in the ship—2 feet 11½ inches; or

(b) if the fiddley, funnel or machinery space ventilator is in position 2 in the ship—2 feet 6 inches.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1970.

  Statutory Rules 1968, No. 126.

20364/70—Price 8c 10/24.9.1970

 

Discharge inlets and scuppers.

6. Regulation 35 of the Navigation (Load Lines) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “, scupper and inlet” and inserting in their stead the words “and scupper”.

Freeing ports.

7. Regulation 37 of the Navigation (Load Lines) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting sub-regulations (2.), (3.) and (4.) and inserting in their stead the following sub-regulations:—

“(2.) For the purposes of this regulation, adequate provision for rapidly freeing and draining the freeboard deck of water shall be deemed not to have been made unless there is provided on each side of the ship in each well on that deck—

(a) a minimum freeing port area ascertained in accordance with the next seven succeeding sub-regulations; or

(b) if the assigning authority directs a greater minimum freeing port area in respect of the ship on the ground that the minimum freeing port area so ascertained would be insufficient—a minimum freeing port area equal to the area so directed.

“(3.) Where the sheer of the deck in which the well is situated is standard or greater than standard and the length of the bulwark in the well is 66 feet or less, the minimum freeing port area is an area having the same number of square feet as the number obtained by the formula—

7.6 + 0.115 l.

“(4.) Where the sheer of the deck in which the well is situated is standard or greater than standard and the length of the bulwark in the well exceeds 66 feet, the minimum freeing port area is an area having the same number of square feet as the number obtained by the formula—

0.23 l.”;

(b) by omitting sub-regulations (8.) and (9.) and inserting in their stead the following sub-regulations:—

“(8.) Where the deck in which the well is situated does not have any sheer, the minimum freeing port area on each side of the ship in each well on the freeboard deck is an area equal to the sum of the area that would have been applicable under sub-regulations (3.) to (6.) (inclusive) of this regulation if the sheer of the deck had been standard and fifty per cent of that last-mentioned area.

“(9.) Where the sheer of the deck in which the well is situated is less than standard and the last preceding sub-regulation does not apply, the minimum freeing port area on each side of the ship in each well on the freeboard deck is the area calculated in accordance with sub-regulations (3.) to (6.) (inclusive) of this regulation increased by a percentage obtained by linear interpolation, based on the sheer, between the area so calculated and the area ascertained in accordance with the last preceding sub-regulation.”; and

(c) by inserting in sub-regulation (11.), after the words “freeing port openings,” the words “in way of the trunk or coamings”.

Deductions for superstructures and trunks.

8. Regulation 56 of the Navigation (Load Lines) Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (4.) the words “in line II” and inserting in their stead the words “in lines I and II”.

 

Sheer.

9. Regulation 57 of the Navigation (Load Lines) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (8.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(8.) In the case of a ship that has an enclosed poop or forecastle—

(a) of standard height with a greater sheer than the sheer of the freeboard deck: or

(b) of a greater height than standard height,

being a ship in respect of which the provisions of paragraph (f) of sub-regulation (4.) of this regulation have not been applied, the sheer of the freeboard deck shall be increased in accordance with the formula—

S=yL1/3L

where—

S is the amount by which the sheer is to be increased; and

y, L1 and L having the same respective meanings as they have in the formula specified in the next succeeding sub-regulation.”.

Minimum bow height.

10. Regulation 58 of the Navigation (Load Lines) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “and the designed trim” and inserting in their stead the words “and to the designed trim”.

Tropical freeboard.

11. Regulation 63 of the Navigation (Load Lines) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—

“(2.) Where the tropical freeboard that would but for this sub-regulation, be assigned to a ship in accordance with the last preceding sub-regulation would be less than 2 inches, the tropical freeboard for the ship is 2 inches.

“(2a.) In applying the last preceding sub-regulation in relation to a ship, the summer freeboard for the ship shall be ascertained as if regulation 61 of these Regulations did not apply in relation to the ship.”.

Fourth Schedule.

12. The Fourth Schedule to the Navigation (Load Lines) Regulations is amended by omitting from item 25 the word “Division” and inserting in its stead the word “Schedule”.

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