STATUTORY RULES.
1926. No. 102.
REGULATIONS
UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912-1926.
I, THE
DEPUTY OF 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 1912-1926, to come into operation on the first day of August, 1926.
Dated this twenty-first day of
July, 1926.
SOMERS,
Deputy of
the Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
H. E.
PRATTEN,
Minister
of State for Trade and Customs.
Navigation
(River Murray Traffic) Regulations
Short
title.
1. These Regulations may
be cited as the Navigation (River Murray Traffic) Regulations.
Definitions.
2. In these Regulations,
unless the contrary intention appears—
“Steamship”
includes every vessel propelled by steam and every vessel over 5 tons gross
register propelled by other mechanical power;
“Surveyor”
means a person appointed under the Navigation
Act 1912-1926, to survey ships and their equipment, and includes a person
appointed by the Minister to inspect ships; and
“Under
way” in relation to a steamship, covers all times when she is not at anchor, or
made fast to the shore, or aground.
Application.
3. These Regulations shall
apply to all steamships used in navigation on the River Murray, or any of its
tributaries.
Lights
to be exhibited.
4. Every steamship, when
under way, shall carry and exhibit from some conspicuous place on each side of
the vessel a bright white light. The glass of the lantern shall be, in the case
of steamships under 20 tons gross register, not less than 8 inches in diameter, and, in the case
of other steamships, not less than 12 inches in diameter, and the construction
and position of the lantern shall be at all times subject to the approval of
the surveyor.
Additional
light for steamer towing barge.
5. Every
steamship towing a barge or barges, whether astern or alongside, shall, in
addition to the lights prescribed in the last preceding regulation, carry and
exhibit on the fore part of the funnel or steam pipe, or in the case of a motor
vessel in a position corresponding thereto, a bright white light in a globular
lantern of not less than 6 inches in diameter.
Light
on barge.
6. The master of every
steamship having a barge or barges in tow shall cause a bright white light to be
carried and exhibited from a conspicuous place on the fore part of each barge.
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Steamships
meeting to reduce speed.
7. Steamships meeting in
narrow waters shall keep out of the way of each other, and reduce speed until
well clear of each other.
Steamships
meeting and passing.
8. Each steamship meeting
another shall keep on her own right-hand side of the river.
Up-going
steamship to give way.
9. A steamship bound
upstream shall give way to a steamship bound downstream.
Steamships
overtaking and passing.
10. A steamship overtaking
another shall in passing keep the overtaken steamship on her own right hand
side.
Use
of whistle at bends in river.
11. On approaching a bend
in the river a steamship shall, if bound upstream, give one sharp blast, or, if
bound downstream, two sharp blasts on the steam whistle or siren.
Steamship
at anchor or moored to a bank.
12. A steamship at anchor
or moored to a bank, but not in port, shall carry and exhibit in a position at
least 10 feet above the deck, and so arranged as to be visible in all
directions, a bright white light in a globular lantern not less than 6 inches
in diameter.
Steamship
aground or disabled.
13. If aground or disabled,
a steamship shall, on the approach of another steamship, give three sharp
blasts on the steam whistle or siren, or, if steam be not available, then three
sharp blasts with a fog-horn.
Lights
to be exhibited every night
14. The lights prescribed
by these Regulations, and no others, shall be carried and exhibited by a
steamship every night from sunset to sunrise:
Provided that, when a steamship is
under way, an electric searchlight may also be used from a position between the
two white lights prescribed in regulation 4 of these Regulations, but it must
be shut off or screened off on approaching, or being approached by, another
vessel in sufficient time to prevent inconvenience to that vessel.
All
other proper precautions to be taken.
15. Nothing in these
Regulations shall exonerate any vessel or her owner or master from the
consequences of any neglect of any precaution required by the ordinary practice
of navigation on the River Murray or its tributaries, or by the special
circumstances of the case.
Reservation
of rules of local authority.
16. Nothing in these
Regulations shall interfere with the operation of any special rule, duly made
by any competent authority, as to navigation in any lock, or in the immediate
vicinity of any lock or bridge on the River Murray, or any of its tributaries.
Regulations
as to collisions, lights and signals.
17. (1) These Regulations
shall, for the purposes of section 258 of the Navigation Act 1912-1926, be the regulations to be observed for the
prevention of collisions, and as to the lights and signals to be used by
steamships to which these Regulations apply.
(2) The owner or master of any
steamship to which these Regulations apply who contravenes any of these
Regulations shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable to the penalties
provided in section 258 of the Navigation
Act 1912-1926.
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