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

STATUTORY RULES.

1923. No.7.

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 fifteenth day of January, 1923.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

ARTHUR S. RODGERS,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

Amendment of Navigation (Master and Seamen) Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1922, No. 34, as amended by Statutory Rules 1922, Nos. 72, 96, 131, and 184.)

Regulation 29 of the Navigation (Master and Seamen) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation is inserted in its stead :—

Overtime charges.

29. (1) When, for the convenience of the public, work in connexion with the engagement or discharge of seamen is performed on board ship, or any work is performed in a Mercantile Marine Office before or after official hours, the following charges shall be made for the services of the officers employed:—

(a)Work performed before or after official hours, ordinary working days—

(i) Discharge of seamen on board ship, at any one attendance of the officers—
									£	s.	d.
Thirty hands or under.........................................						0	10	6
Over 30 and not exceeding 60 hands...................						1	1	0
Over 60 hands...................................................						2	2	0
(ii) Engagement of seamen on board ship, at any one attendance of the officers—
									£	s.	d.
Thirty hands or under.........................................						0	10	6
Over 30 and not exceeding 60 hands ...................						1	1	0
Over 60 hands...................................................						2	2	0
(iii) Discharge or engagement of seamen in a Mercantile Marine Office, on each occasion on which the officers are so employed in respect of any one ship:—one-half of the above rates.

C. 12.—Price 3d.

(iv) Clearance of agreements, or similar work of a clerical nature performed in a Mercantile Marine Office—for each officer engaged, per hour or part thereof, 3s.

(b)Work performed on Sundays and holidays—double the rates specified in paragraph (a) above.

(c) Work performed on board ship during official hours, on ordinary working days—double the rates specified in sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii) of paragraph (a) above.

(2) Where the attendance of an officer is required in connexion with the engagement or discharge of seamen on board ship, there shall be charged for each officer engaged, in addition to the charges specified in sub-paragraph (1) of this regulation—

(a) for the time of the officer, in excess of half an hour, actually occupied in travelling to and from the Mercantile Marine Office or his home; and

(b)for all waiting time in excess of half an hour, an amount at the rate of Three shillings per hour or part of an hour.

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