Navigation (Pig Iron, Coal and Ballast) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1980 No. 208

REGULATION UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 19121

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Navigation Act 1912.

Dated this seventeenth day of July 1980.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

RALPH J. HUNT

Minister of State for Transport

AMENDMENTS OF THE NAVIGATION (PIG IRON, COAL AND BALLAST) REGULATIONS2

Schedule of amendments

  The Navigation (Pig Iron, Coal and Ballast) Regulations are amended as set out in the Schedule.

SCHEDULE

AMENDMENTS OF THE NAVIGATION (PIG IRON, COAL AND BALLAST) REGULATIONS

Provision amended

Amendment

Regulation 4

      . . .   . .

(a) Omit “ton” from the definition of “pig iron”, substitute “tonne”.

(b) Omit “twenty cubic feet” from the definition of “pig iron”, substitute “0.56 cubic metre”.

Paragraph 14 (a)

 .   . . .

Omit “one foot”, substitute “300 millimetres”.

Paragraph 16 (a)

 .   . . .

Omit “one foot”, substitute “300 millimetres”.

FIRST SCHEDULE

 .   .

(a) Omit “Weight”, substitute “Mass”.

(b) Omit “tons”, substitute “tonnes”.

(c) Omit “cubic feet”, substitute “cubic metres”.

SECOND SCHEDULE

 .

(a) Omit from paragraph (a) of clause 2 “30 feet”, substitute “9 metres”.

(b) Omit from paragraph (c) of clause 2 “25 feet”, substitute “7.6 metres”.

(c) Omit from clause 4 “21/2 inches”, substitute “65 millimetres”.

(d) Omit from clause 4 “3 inches”, substitute “75 millimetres”.

(e) Omit from clause 5 “paragraph”, substitute “clause”.

(f) Omit clause 6, substitute the following clause: “6. For the purposes of clause 5, uprights shall be deemed to be of sufficient strength to support the pig iron if their strength is not less than that of—

• (a)

  lengths of steel angles (the sections of which measure 127 millimetres by 127 millimetres by 13 millimetres) placed 1.5 metres apart;

• (b)

  lengths of steel H sections (the webs of which measure 89 millimetres by 10 millimetres and the flanges of which measure 75 millimetres by 10 millimetres) placed 2.4 metres apart; or

• (c)

  lengths of hardwood (the sections of which measure 150 millimetres by 100 millimetres) placed 1.5 metres apart.”.

• (g)

  Omit from paragraph (a) of clause 8 “12 inches”, substitute “300 millimetres”.

• (h)

  Omit from clause 9 “the last preceding paragraph”, substitute “clause 8”.

• (i)

  Omit from paragraph (a) of clause 9 “10 feet”, substitute “3 metres”.

• (j)

  Omit from paragraph (b) of clause 9 “three inches”, substitute “75 millimetres”.

• (k)

  Omit from paragraph (c) of clause 9 “12 inches”, substitute “300 millimetres”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 24 July 1980.

2. Statutory Rules 1959 No. 56 as amended by Statutory Rules 1963 No. 97; 1976 No. 283; 1977 No. 272; 1978 No. 135; 1979 No. 198.