Statutory
Rules
1973
No. 233
REGULATIONS
UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912-1972.*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of Australia, acting with the advice of
the Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Navigation Act 1912-1972.
Dated this twenty-second day of
November, 1973.
PAUL HASLUCK
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
C. K. JONES
Minister of State for Transport.
Amendments of the Navigation
(Loading and Unloading—Safety Measures) Regulations
Repeal and
saving.
1.
Regulation 4 of the Navigation (Loading and Unloading—Safety Measures)
Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2) the word
“regulation” and substituting the word “sub-regulation”.
Interpretation.
2.
Regulation 5 of the Navigation (Loading and Unloading—Safety Measures)
Regulations is amended by omitting sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (b) of sub-regulation
(3) and substituting the following sub-paragraph:—
“(i) the cargo
gear in the ship has been tested and examined in accordance with—
(A) these
Regulations;
(B) the
requirements of the law in force in Canada, the Republic of India, the Kingdom
of the Netherlands, New Zealand or the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland;
(C) the
requirements relating to the safe use of cargo gear laid down by the American
Bureau of Shipping for a ship the keel of which was laid down on or after the
first day of August, 1952; or
(D) the
requirements relating to the safe use of cargo gear laid down by Germanischer
Lloyd,
and was found
after the test to be free from defects; and”.
Safe working
loads.
3.
Regulation 25 of the Navigation (Loading and Unloading—Safety Measures)
Regulations is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (2), after the words “the
laws”, the words “or the requirements relating to the safe use of cargo gear”.
* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 29 November 1973.
Statutory Rules 1961, No. 128,
as amended by Statutory Rules 1967, No. 133; 1969, No. 210; and 1970, No. 59
Supervision of
engines and boilers.
4. Regulation 40 of the Navigation
(Loading and Unloading—Safety Measures) Regulations is amended by omitting from
sub-regulation (1) the words “a ship” (second occurring) and substituting the
words “the ship”.
Employment of
persons attending cargo gear.
5.
Regulation 46 of the Navigation (Loading and Unloading—Safety Measures)
Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (1) the
word “and” and substituting the word “or”.
Fences and
other life-saving appliances to be replaced.
6.
Regulation 65 of the Navigation (Loading and Unloading—Safety Measures)
Regulations is amended by omitting the words “a ship” (second occurring) and
substituting the words “the ship”.
Marking of
weight on heavy articles.
7. Regulation 72 of the Navigation
(Loading and Unloading—Safety Measures) Regulations is amended—
(a) by
omitting from sub-regulation (2) the words “a ship” (second occurring) and
substituting the words “the ship”; and
(b) by
omitting from sub-regulation (4) the words “a ship” (second occurring) and
substituting the words “the ship”.
Fees.
8.
Regulation 77 of the Navigation (Loading and Unloading—Safety Measures)
Regulations