Navigation (Nuclear Ships) Regulations (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1968 No.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912-1967.*

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 1912-1967.

Dated this twentieth day of March, 1968.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Sgd.

Minister of State for Shipping and Transport.

 

Navigation (Nuclear Ships) Regulations

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Navigation (Nuclear Ships) Regulations.

Definitions.

2. In these Regulations—

“the Secretary” means the Secretary to the Department of Shipping and Transport;

“ship” means a nuclear ship registered in a country to which the Safety Convention applies.

Safety Assessment.

3.—(1.) In this regulation, a reference to a Safety Assessment means the Safety Assessment of a ship in the form that has been approved under the law of the country in which the ship is registered.

(2.)At least thirty days before a ship arrives in Australia, a copy of the Safety Assessment of the ship shall be made available to the Secretary and notice in writing shall be given to the Secretary of—

(a) the date of the ship’s expected arrival in Australia;

(b) the ports the ship proposes to enter in Australia; and

(c) the date on which the ship proposes to enter each of those ports.

(3.) Where the Safety Assessment of a ship is altered after the date on which it is available to the Secretary and before the date on which the ship arrives at a port in Australia, a copy of the Safety Assessment as so altered shall forthwith be made available to the Secretary.

(4.) Where—

(a) the date of the ship’s expected arrival in Australia;

(b) the ports the ship proposes to enter in Australia; or

(c) the date on which the ship proposes to enter each of those ports,

are altered after the date on which the notice referred to in sub-regulation (2.) is given to the Secretary, notice in writing of that alteration shall forthwith be given to the Secretary.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  1968.

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(5.) Where—

(a) a ship proposes to enter a port in Australia;

(b)the ship has been in that port or in another port in Australia within the period of thirty days immediately preceding the date on which it is proposed to enter that port; and

(c) the Safety Assessment of the ship was made available to the Secretary when the ship last entered the port in Australia,

the Safety Assessment of the ship shall be made available to the Secretary only if it has been altered since last it was made available to the Secretary or if the Secretary requests that it be made available.

(6.) The master of a ship shall not bring the ship into a port in Australia unless the provisions of this regulation in so far as they are applicable in relation to the ship have been complied with.

Production of Operating Manual and Safety Convention Certificate.

4. Before a ship enters a port in Australia the master shall produce for inspection by the pilot who has the conduct of the ship, or a person authorized by the Minister for the purposes of this regulation—

(a) the Operating Manual in respect of the ship in the form that has been approved under the law of the country in which the ship is registered; and

(b) the valid Safety Convention certificate in force in respect of the ship, being, in the case of a nuclear passenger ship, a certificate that corresponds with a nuclear passenger ship safety certificate or, in the case of a nuclear cargo ship, a certificate that corresponds with a nuclear cargo ship safety certificate.

Report of accident.

5. The master of a ship that is on a voyage to a port in Australia or is in a port in Australia shall forthwith report to the Secretary by the quickest possible means, any accident causing, or likely to cause, any radiation or other nuclear hazards on, or in the vicinity of, the ship.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra