Navigation (Loading and Unloading) Regulations 1928 (Amendment) (Cth)
STATUTORY RULES.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912-1926.
I, THE person administering the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Navigation Act 1912-1926, to come into operation, as regards Regulations 1 and 2 forthwith, and as regards Regulation 3, on the first day of December, 1930.
Dated this thirtieth day of October, 1930.
SOMERS
Administering the Government of the
Commonwealth of Australia.
By His Excellency’s Command,
F. M. FORDE
Acting Minister of State for Transport.
Amendment of Navigation (Loading and Unloading) Regulations.
(Statutory Rules 1928, No. 20, as amended by Statutory Rules 1928, No. 89.)
1. Regulation 3 of the Navigation (Loading and Unloading) Regulations is repealed and the following Regulation inserted in its stead:—
“3. These Regulations shall apply to all ships, British and foreign (except ships engaged wholly in the domestic trade of a single State or River and Bay Ships) loading or unloading cargo at a port in Australia, and to the cargo gear (whether belonging to the ship or not) used in connexion with the loading or unloading of cargo into or from those ships.”
2. The Navigation (Loading and Unloading) Regulations are amended by adding at the end thereof the following Regulation:—
“33. When in connexion with the loading or unloading of any ship to which these Regulations apply the safety of any person on or about the ship is imperilled, or any such person is injured as the result of the breakage or failure of any portion of the cargo gear in use at the time, the master and also the person directly responsible for the loading and unloading operations at the time of such breakage or failure shall furnish to the Deputy Director within 24 hours of the occurrence, a report in writing giving full particulars thereof.”
3. The Navigation (Loading and Unloading) Regulations are amended by adding at the end thereof the following Regulation:—
“34.—(1.) Every package or article of cargo of a gross weight of one metric ton (2,205 lb.) or over, before being loaded on any ship at a Commonwealth port by means of the cargo gear belonging to or used on the ship, shall have prominently marked upon it, or upon a label securely attached to it, in legible and durable characters of not less than 1 inch in height, a statement of its approximate gross weight set out in tons and hundredweights:
Provided that in the case of articles, such as logs, baulks of timber, or other articles which, by reason of their nature or place of shipment it is not practicable to weigh, but which are of a weight of over 2,205 lb., the gross weight may be stated approximately, within a limit of one ton as ‘Over 1 but under 2 tons’ or as the case may be.
(2.) The last preceding sub-regulation shall not apply to articles which, by reason of their nature or place of shipment, it is neither practicable to weigh nor legibly to mark or label, but in respect of such articles and also in respect of articles which have been loaded outside Australia and which are not marked as specified in sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation the master of the ship shall arrange for some competent person to give, to the workers actually employed in the loading or unloading of the articles by means of the cargo gear, verbal advice as to the approximate weight of each such article about to be so loaded or unloaded.”
By Authority: H. J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra.
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