Navigation (Marine Council) Regulations 1919 (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1919. No. 294.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912–1919.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Navigation Act 1912–1919, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-third day of December, 1919.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. MASSY GREENE,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

 

Navigation (Marine Council) Regulations.

Short title.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Navigation (Marine Council) Regulations 1919.

Definitions.

2. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—

“Director of Navigation” means the Director of Navigation for the Commonwealth;

“Minister” means the Minister of State for Trade and Customs;

“The Act” means the Navigation Act 1912–1919.

Constitution of Marine Council. (Sec. 424.)

3. (1) The Marine Council shall consist of the Director of Navigation and of six other persons appoined by the Minister as respectively representative of the following interests, namely:—

(a) Ship-owners—Australian-registered foreign-going shipping;

(b) Ship-owners—Australian-registered shipping other than foreign-going;

(c) Underwriters;

(d)Certificated navigating officers;

(e) Certificated engineer officers; and

(f) Seamen.

(2) The Director may appoint an officer of the Commonwealth Navigation Service to be his deputy, and in that capacity to represent the Director at meetings of the Council, at which he is absent, and to exercise the functions of the Director at such meetings.

(3) The Director of Navigation shall be ex officio chairman of the Council, and in his absence from any meeting of the Council his deputy shall act as chairman.

(4) In the absence of both the Director of Navigation and his deputy from any meeting of the Council, the members present shall elect one of their number to act as chairman at that meeting.

Term of office.

4. Subject to the right of the Minister to terminate at any time the appointment of a member, the persons first appointed to be members of the Marine Council shall hold office until and including the 31st December, 1920.

Meetings of Marine Council.

5. Meetings of the Marine Council shall be called by the Director of Navigation, and shall be held at such time and place as are specified in the notice of meeting sent to the members.

Quorum.

6. Four members of the Marine Council shall constitute a quorum.

Majority to decide.

7. (1) All questions at any meeting of the Marine Council shall be decided by a majority of the votes of the members present.

(2) The Chairman (other than an acting chairman elected in pursuance of sub-regulation (4) of regulation 3) shall have a casting but not a deliberative vote.

(3) An acting chairman, elected in pursuance of sub-regulation (4) of regulation 3, shall have a deliberative vote, and, in case of an equal division of votes, a casting vote also.

Committees of Advice.(Sec. 424 (3).)

8. (1) The Minister may, by writing under his hand, appoint persons (including representatives of the interests principally affected) to constitute Committees of Advice.

(2) The Minister may refer to a Committee of Advice any question relating to the making or amendment of regulations under the Act or to the administration or amendment of the Act, and the Committee shall consider the question, and report to the Minister the result of its deliberations thereon.

Provided that if any question so referred relates to scales of officers, crews or provisions, or to any proposal to specify the crews to be carried by particular ships, the reports of the Committee of Advice thereon shall be forwarded to the Minister through the Director of Navigation, who, on the receipt thereof and before transmitting them to the Minister, shall submit them to the Marine Council for consideration and comment.

Fees and allowances to members of Marine Council and Committee of Advice.

9. Members of the Marine Council appointed by the Minister as representative of interests affected, and members of Committees of Advice similarly appointed, shall be paid fees and travelling allowances as follows:—

Fees.—Per day, when sitting—One guinea.

Allowances.—To members resident in a State other than that in which the Marine Council or Committee of Advice meets—First class rail fare from the capital city in State of residence to place of sitting, and return, together with travelling allowance at the rate of One guinea per day, such allowance to be inclusive of all incidentals when travelling, such as meals, cab fares, &c.

 

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