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

STATUTORY RULES.

1922. No. 184.

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 twentieth day of December, 1922.

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, and 131.)

1. Regulation 29 of the Navigation (Master and Seamen) Regulations 1922 is amended by adding thereto a new sub-regulation as follows:—

“(2) Where the attendance of an officer is required before or after official hours, or on a Sunday or holiday 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-regulation (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, in respect of the time the officer is so travelling, or waiting before or after official hours, or on a Sunday or holiday.”

 

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