Navigation (Master and Seamen) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1988 No. 1541

Navigation (Master And Seamen)

Regulations2(Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and pursuant to section 4 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901, hereby make the following Regulations under the Navigation Act 1912.

Dated 30 June 1988.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

ROBERT RAY

Minister of State for Home Affairs

for and on behalf of the

Minister of State for Transport and

Communications

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Principal Regulations

 1. In these Regulations, “Principal Regulations” means the Navigation (Master and Seamen) Regulations.

Maximum age for employment at sea

 2. Regulation 8A of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting from subregulation (1) “sub-section 48A (1)” and substituting “section 48A”.

 3. Regulation 8B of the Principal Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:

Details of crew-subsection 52 (1) of the Act

“8B.

(1) For the purposes of subsection 52 (1) of the Act, a proper authority is a prescribed person.

“(2)

For the purposes of subsection 52 (1) of the Act, the following details are prescribed:

• (a)

  in respect of the crew of the ship-the full name and usual residential address of each seaman engaged to serve on the ship and the capacity in which each such seaman is engaged;

• (b)

  in respect of changes in the crew of the ship-the date on which and the place at which any seaman was engaged to serve on the ship because of any such change.”.

Entries in log-book relating to money and effects of deceased seaman

 4. Regulation 19 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting “or apprentice”.

Schedule 2

 5. Schedule 2 to the Principal Regulations is amended:

• (a)

  by omitting Form 3 and substituting the following form:

  “FORM 3 Regulation 7

AUSTRALIA

NAVIGATION ACT

THE AGREEMENT

Voyage (or voyages) to be

undertaken .............................................................................................................

DESCRIPTION OF SHIP

Name of ship .........................................................................................................

*Home port/*port of registry ................................................................................

Full name and address of

*owner/*operator ..................................................................................................

TERMS OF AGREEMENT

Period the agreement is to be in force ..................................................................

 (Set out briefly the rights and obligations of the parties)

PARTICULARS OF SEAMAN

Full name and personal identification

number ..................................................................................................................

Residential address ...............................................................................................

Date and place of birth .........................................................................................

Capacity in which engaged ...................................................................................

Date and place seaman is

to join ship ............................................................................................................

*Amount/*rate of wages ......................................................................................

Proper return port .................................................................................................

Signed at .................................on ...............................19.......

.………………………….. …...……………………….

Master  Seaman

 * Omit if not applicable.”;

• (b)

  by omitting Form 5 and substituting the following form:

  “FORM 5 Regulation 10

AUSTRALIA

NAVIGATION ACT

 DISCHARGE

Name of ship .........................................................................................................

Full name and personal

identification number of seaman ...........................................................................

Date and place of birth

of seaman ..............................................................................................................

Capacity in which

seaman engaged ....................................................................................................

Date and place of engagement ..............................................................................

Date and place of discharge ..................................................................................

Dates and places seaman became

and ceased to be a member of the

crew .......................................................................................................................

................................................................................................................................

................................................................................................................................

................................................................................................................................

• Dated ...................... 19

   .

  …...………………………...

  Master”;

• (c)

  by omitting from the heading to Form 10 “OR APPRENTICE”;

• (d)

  by omitting from Form 10 “or Apprentice” (wherever occurring);

• (e)

  by omitting from Form 12 “Regulations 11 and 22” and substituting “Regulation 22”;

• (f)

  by omitting Part II in Form 12;

• (g)

  by omitting each of the following forms:

   Forms 1, 4, 6 and 9.

Repeals

 6. The following provisions of the Principal Regulations are repealed:

 Regulations 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 14 and 27 to 33 (inclusive).

Transitional

 7. An agreement in relation to a seaman belonging to a ship entered into before the commencement of these Regulations shall, on and after that commencement, continue in force for the duration of the agreement as if these Regulations had not been made.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 30 June 1988.

2. Statutory Rules 1963 No. 102 as amended by 1964 No. 8; 1965 No. 111; 1967 No. 90; 1968 No. 117; 1974 No. 83; 1975 Nos. 111 and 114; 1976 No. 282; 1977 Nos. 228 and 271; 1979 No. 197; 1981 Nos. 291 and 397; 1982 Nos. 7, 8, 20 and 396; 1984 No. 357; 1985 No. 257; 1986 No. 225.