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

Statutory Rules 1981 No. 3971

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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 in pursuance of section 4 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901, hereby make the following Regulations under the Navigation Act 1912.

Dated 21 December 1981.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command,

RALPH J. HUNT

Minister of State for Transport

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1. Regulation 6 of the Navigation (Master and Seamen) Regulations is repealed.

2. After regulation 8 of the Navigation (Master and Seamen) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Minimum age for employment at sea

"8A. (1) For the purposes of sub-section 48A (1) of the Act, the prescribed age is—

(a) except where paragraph (b) applies—16 years in respect of any capacity; or

(b) where a minimum age in respect of a capacity is prescribed—

(i) in regulations, as in force from time to time, made by virtue of section 15 of the Act; or

(ii) in orders, as in force from time to time, made in pursuance of regulations made by virtue of that section,

the age prescribed by those regulations or those orders, as the case may be, in respect of that capacity.

(2) Sub-regulation (1) does not apply to service in ships where only members of the same family are employed, or to service in any training ship approved by the Minister.".

Schedule 2

3. Schedule 2 to the Navigation (Master and Seamen) Regulations is amended by omitting Form 2.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 31 December 1981.

2. Statutory Rules 1963 No. 102 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1981 No. 291 and see also