Navigation (Sight Tests for Apprentices) Regulations (Cth)

NAVIGATION (SIGHT TESTS FOR APPRENTICES) REGULATIONS.

 

Statutory Rules 1964, No. 36.(b)

 

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Navigation (Sight Tests for Apprentices) Regulations.

Definitions.

2. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—

“candidate” means a candidate for the sight test prescribed by these Regulations;

“the Examiner” means a person appointed to conduct examinations under the Navigation (Examination of Masters and Mates) Regulations;

“the Principal Examiner” means the person for the time being holding or performing the duties of the office of the Commonwealth Principal Examiner of Masters and Mates.

Sight test for apprentices.

3. For the purpose of paragraph (c) of sub-section (1.) of section 35 of the Navigation Act 1912-1961, the prescribed sight test consists of a form vision test and a colour vision test conducted in accordance with these Regulations.

Candidate not to use artificial aid to vision during test.

4. A candidate shall not use glasses, spectacles, contact lenses or any other artificial aid to vision during the sight test.

Candidate to be tested in form vision test before colour vision test.

5. A candidate shall be tested in the form vision test before he is tested in the colour vision test.

Form vision test.

6.—(1.) The form vision test shall be conducted in accordance with this regulation.

(2.) The test shall be conducted on Snellen’s principle by means of sheets of letters.

(3.) Each sheet shall contain seven lines, and the fifth, sixth and seventh lines of each sheet shall contain letters of sizes that subtend an angle of five minutes of arc at distances of ten metres, seven and one-half metres and five metres, respectively.

(b) Made under the Navigation Act 1912-1961 on 6 March, 1964; notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 6 March, 1964.

 

(4.) The sheets shall be hung on a wall at a height between five and six feet from the floor, and an electric light shall be so placed and screened that it falls directly on two lines of the letters on each sheet when that sheet is exposed.

(5.) The Examiner shall ensure that there are no glaring lights or bright objects in the candidate’s field of vision.

(6.) The Examiner shall cause the candidate to be placed at a distance of sixteen feet from, and directly in front of, the sheets.

(7.) The Examiner shall cause three sheets to be exposed, one at a time, to the candidate and shall ask him to read aloud the letters in each line of each sheet.

(8.) The candidate shall—

(a) when reading from the first sheet—use only one eye;

(b) when reading from the second sheet—use only his other eye; and

(c) when reading from the third sheet—use both eyes together.

(9.) Where a candidate reads correctly from two of the sheets but fails to read correctly from the remaining sheet, the Examiner shall cause a fourth sheet to be exposed to the candidate and shall ask him to read aloud the letters in each line of that sheet in whichever manner specified in the last preceding sub-regulation was applicable in relation to the sheet from which he failed to read correctly.

(10.) The Examiner shall not expose more than four sheets to a candidate and shall not expose the same sheet to a candidate more than once.

(11.) A candidate shall be deemed to read correctly from a sheet if—

(a) where he uses only his better eye—he is able to read correctly from the sheet all the letters down to and including the sixth line and not less than four of the seven letters in the seventh line;

(b) where he uses only his other eye—he is able to read correctly from the sheet all the letters down to and including the fifth line and not less than five of the six letters in the sixth line; and

(c) where he uses both eyes together—he is able to read correctly from the sheet all the letters down to and including the sixth line and not less than six of the seven letters in the seventh line.

(12.) A candidate shall be deemed to have passed the form vision test if—

(a) he is able to read correctly from the first, second and third sheets exposed to him; or

(b) he is able to read correctly from two of those sheets and is able to read correctly from the fourth sheet exposed to him.

Further test of candidate who fails to pass form vision test.

7. A candidate who fails to pass the form vision test may be tested again at intervals of not less than three months.

Candidate to pass form vision test before attempting colour vision test.

8.—(1.) Subject to the next suceeding sub-regulation, where a candidate fails to pass the form vision test, the Examiner shall not test him by the colour vision test.

 

(2.) Where a candidate fails to pass the form vision test but, at that test, is able, when using both eyes together, to read correctly from one of the sheets all the letters down to and including the fifth line, not less than five of the six letters in the sixth line and not less than four of the seven letters in the seventh line, the Examiner shall, at the request of the candidate, test him by the colour vision test.

Colour vision test.

9.—(1.) The colour vision test shall be conducted in accordance with this regulation.

(2.) The test shall be held in a room from which all daylight has been excluded.

(3.) The test shall be conducted by means of a special lantern and mirror provided for the purposes of the test.

(4.) The Examiner shall cause the lantern to be placed directly in front of the mirror so that the portion of the lantern nearest the mirror is ten feet from the mirror.

(5.) The Examiner shall cause the candidate to be placed on the left of the lantern so that the candidate is able to see clearly the lights from the lantern reflected in the mirror.

(6.) The Examiner shall explain to the candidate the nature and colours of the lights shown by the lantern.

(7.) The Examiner shall then show the candidate a series of lights through the large aperture in the lantern and not less than thirty-six pairs of lights through the two small apertures of the lantern and shall ask him to name the colour of each light shown through the large aperture and the colours, from left to right, of each pair of lights shown through the small apertures.

(8.) If the candidate makes mistakes in naming the colours of the lights at the beginning of the test—

(a) the Examiner shall cause the candidate to remain in a wholly or partly darkened room for not less than fifteen minutes; and

(b) at the expiration of that period, the Examiner shall again test the candidate by the colour vision test in accordance with the preceding provisions of this regulation.

When candidate shall be deemed to have passed the colour vision test.

10.—(1.) A candidate shall be deemed to have passed the colour vision test if—

(a) he does not make a mistake in naming the colours of the lights; or

(b) the only mistakes made by him are to name the white light “red” and, after the Examiner has directed his attention to the difference between the white and red lights, he does not make a further mistake.

(2.) If a candidate makes any other mistake in naming the colours of the lights, the Examiner shall—

(a) if he is the Principal Examiner—decide whether the candidate has passed or failed to pass the test; or

(b) in any other case—refer the results of the test to the Principal Examiner.

 

(3.) The Principal Examiner shall consider the results of a test referred to him in accordance with paragraph (b) of the last preceding sub-regulation and shall decide whether the candidate has passed or failed to pass the test.

(4.) Where the Principal Examiner thinks it desirable to do so, he may, before deciding whether a candidate has passed or failed to pass the test, require the candidate to be again tested by the colour vision test in accordance with the last preceding regulation.

Further test of candidate who fails to pass the colour vision test.

11.—(1.) The Principal Examiner may permit a candidate who failed to pass the colour vision test to be again tested by that test, in which event the candidate may, upon payment of a fee determined by the Minister, apply to the Principal Examiner for a further test.

(2.) A fee paid under the last preceding sub-regulation shall be repaid to the candidate if he passes the further test.