Navigation (Radio) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1978 No. 122

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912*

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

Dated this seventh day of July 1978.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

PETER NIXON

Minister of State for Transport

 

AMENDMENTS OF THE NAVIGATION (RADIO) REGULATIONS 

Interpretation

1. Regulation 4 of the Navigation (Radio) Regulations is amended by inserting after sub-regulation (4) the following sub-regulations:

“ (5) In these Regulations, a reference to a lime of day expressed as 4 digits in hours is a reference to the time after midnight that is the number of hours (if any) equal to the number constituted by the first and second of those digits and the number of minutes (if any) less than an hour equal, to the number constituted by the third and fourth of those digits.

“ (6) For the purposes of sub-regulation (5), where the first of 2 digits constituting a number of hours or a number of minutes is 0, that number of hours or number of minutes, as the case may be, shall be taken to be the number constituted by the second of those 2 digits.”.

Radio watch

2. Regulation. 26 of the Navigation (Radio) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting paragraphs (b) and (c) of sub-regulation (1) and substituting the following paragraphs:

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 13 July 1978.

  Statutory Rules 1968, No. 39 as amended by Statutory Rules 1972, No. 117; 1973, No. 121; and 1976, No. 224.

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“ (b) if the ship is equipped with an auto-alarm and is a Class I ship engaged on an international voyage—a radio watch of 16 hours on each day at the times specified in Part A of the Seventh Schedule; or

(c) in any other case—a radio watch of 8 hours on each day at the times specified in Part B of that Schedule.”; and

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (2) “ a manual radio watch is not maintained ” and substituting “ a radio watch is not being maintained under paragraph (b) or (c) of sub-regulation (1) ”.

Repeal of regulations 51, 53, 55, 56

3. Regulations 51, 53, 55 and 56 of the Navigation (Radio) Regulations ace repealed.

Seventh Schedule

4. The Seventh Schedule to the Navigation (Radio) Regulations is repealed and the following Schedule substituted:

SEVENTH SCHEDULE Regulation 26

TABLE OF RADIO WATCH HOURS

Part A

Times of radio watch for ships required to maintain radio watch of 16 hours each day

(Ship’s time)

0000h to 0400h

0800h to 1200h

1600h to 1800h

2000h to 2200h

(together with 4 hours of radio watch to meet the essential communication needs of the ship having regard to radio transmission propagation conditions and traffic requirements).

Part B

Times of radio watch for ships required to maintain radio watch of 8 hours each day

(Ship’s time)

0800h to 1200h

2 continuous hours between 1800h and 2200h

(together with 2 hours of radio watch to meet the essential communication needs of the ship having regard to radio transmission propagation conditions and traffic requirements).