Navigation (Loading and Unloading) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1948. No. 132.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912-1942.*

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, 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 1912-1942.

Dated this fifteenth day of October, 1948.

W. J. McKELL

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Shipping and Fuel.

Amendments a the Navigation (Loading and Unloading) Regulations.  

Protection of hatchways by coamings, &c.

1. After regulation 31 of the Navigation (Loading and Unloading) Regulations the following regulation is inserted: ─

“ 31a. All hatchways on the uppermost deck shall be fitted with coamings of sufficient height and strength or with portable rails and stanchions fixed firmly in position when the hatchways are open.”.

Report of breakage or failure of gear or injury or risk to any person on or about a ship.

2. Regulation 50 of the Navigation (Loading and Unloading) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead: ─

“50. Where, 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 or has been imperilled, directly or indirectly as the result of loading or unloading operations, or where any portion of the cargo gear breaks or fails in operation, whether or not causing injury any person, the master and also the person directly responsible for the loading or unloading operations at the time of the occurrence shall furnish to the Deputy Director, within twenty-four hours after the occurrence, a report in accordance with Form L.U.-6 in the Second Schedule.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1948.

 Statutory Rules 1941, No. 164, as amended by Statutory Rules 1942, No. 337.

1552. —Price 3D. 10/13.9.1948.

Marking of weight of heavy packages.

3. Regulation 51 of the Navigation (Loading and Unloading) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “by means of the cargo gear belonging to or used on the ship”; and

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the words “ by means of the cargo gear.”.

Responsibility of person in charge.

4. Regulation 53 of the Navigation (Loading and Unloading) Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting after the word “ are “ the word “ being “; and

(b)by omitting the words “ the men engaged “ and inserting in their stead the words “ any person employed on or about the ship “.

Amendment of second Schedule.

5. The Second Schedule to the Navigation (Loading and Unloading) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following form:—

Reg. 50.

Form L.U.─ 6

Commonwealth of Australia.

Navigation Act 1912-1942.

Navigation (Loading and Unloading) Regulations.

 

REPORT OF BREAKAGE OR FAILURE OF GEAR, OR INJURY OR RISK TO ANY PERSON ON OR ABOUT A SHIP.

Name of ship	Port of registry			Official No.
Steam, motor, or sail	Tonnage─gross			net
When and where built
Name of owners	Name of agent
Name of master
Name of person directly responsible for loading or unloading operations at the time of occurrence
Capacity in which person directly responsible was acting at the time and by whom employed
Date of occurrence		Place of occurrence
Vessel now berthed at
Projected date of departure			Where bound
Report

To the Deputy Director of *Signature of Master

Navigation, Date / /19

*Signature of person responsible for operations

Date / / 19

Note. —Separate reports by the master and person directly responsible for the loading or unloading operations are required.

* Strike out whichever words are inapplicable.

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.