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

STATUTORY RULES.

1925. No. 87.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912-1920.

I, 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 1912-1920, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this fourth day of June, 1925.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Ll. ATKINSON,

for Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

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Amendment of Navigation (Master and Seamen) Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1924, No. 199.)

Regulation 10 of the Navigation (Master and Seamen) Regulations is amended by inserting at the end of sub-regulation (1.) a proviso as follows:—

Discharge books.

“Provided that where a seaman is in possession of a discharge book in the form (Dis. A.) approved by the Board of Trade of the United Kingdom, an entry therein of the particulars specified in form M & S-6 shall, when signed by the master and attested by the superintendent be deemed to be, for the purposes of the Navigation Act and of these Regulations, a Certificate of Discharge in the prescribed form.”

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