Navigation (Signals of Distress, Urgency Signals and Danger Messages) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)
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
Dated this sixteenth day of December 1977.
ZELMAN COWEN
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
P. J. NIXON
Minister of State for Transport
AMENDMENTS OF THE NAVIGATION (SIGNALS OF DISTRESS, URGENCY SIGNALS AND DANGER MESSAGES) REGULATIONS
(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1) the definition of “ auto-alarm ”;
(b) by omitting from the definition of “ radio watch ” in sub-regulation (1) “ kilocycles per second ” and substituting “ kilohertz ”;
(c) by inserting after the definition of “ radiotelegraph alarm signal ” in sub-regulation (1) the following definition:
“ ‘ radiotelegraph auto-alarm ’ means an apparatus for automatically receiving and registering a radiotelegraph alarm signal, being an apparatus that—
(a) complies with the requirements specified in the Fifth Schedule to the Navigation (Radio) Regulations; and
* Notified in the
Statutory Rules 1968, No. 40 as amended by Statutory Rules 1974, No. 240.
(b) is of a type approved in accordance with those Regulations;”;
(d) by omitting from the definition of “ the Act ” in sub-regulation (1) “ 1912-1967 ” and substituting “ 1912 ”;
(e) by adding at the end of sub-regulation (1) the following definition:
“ ‘ vital navigational warning message ’ means a message of an urgent nature transmitted by a coast radio station by radiotelephony, being a message that conveys information in relation to a hazardous situation existing in the zone of transmission of that radio station.”; and
(f) by omitting sub-regulation (2) and substituting the following sub-regulation:
“ (2) In these Regulations—
(a) a reference to a wave, emission or signal of class A2 shall be read as a reference to an emission that is amplitude modulated in the double sideband mode; and
(b) a reference to a wave, emission or signal of class A2H shall be read as a reference to an emission that is amplitude modulated in the single sideband mode and in which the carrier wave is emitted at a power level of not more than 6 decibels below the peak envelope power.”.
“ (5) Where a coast radio station has transmitted a radiotelephone alarm signal, that station shall, upon the completion of the transmission of that signal, transmit a signal having a single tone for a duration of 10 seconds at a frequency of 1300 hertz.”.
“ 12. (1) Subject to sub-regulation (5), in radiotelegraphy, the radio frequency to be used for distress traffic is 500 kilohertz, used, if possible, on a class A2 emission or on a class A2H emission.
“ (2) Subject to sub-regulations (3) and (5), in radiotelephony, the radio frequency to be used for distress traffic is—
(a) in the case of radio stations working in the bands between 1605 and 2850 kilohertz—2182 kilohertz; and
(b) in the case of radio stations working in the bands between 156 and 174 megahertz—156.80 megahertz.
“ (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-regulation (2), in radiotelephony—
(a) the radio frequency 4125 kilohertz may be used for distress traffic by radio stations working in those parts of regions 1 and 2 that are south of parallel 15° north latitude and by ship radio stations working in Mexico; and
(b) the radio frequency 4125 kilohertz or 6215.50 kilohertz may be used for distress traffic by radio stations working in region 3 south of parallel 25° north latitude.
“ (4) A reference in sub-regulation (3) to a region by number shall be read as a reference to the region so numbered in Schedule 1.
“ (5) The radio frequency to be used in the case of a ship radio station that is unable to comply with the preceding provisions of this regulation relating to radiotelegraphy or radiotelephony, as the case may be, is the normal calling radio frequency of the ship radio station.”.
(a) by inserting in sub-regulation (2) immediately before paragraph (a) the following paragraph:
“ (aa) the prescribed signal of distress;”; and
(b) by inserting in sub-regulation (3) immediately before paragraph (a) the following paragraph:
“ (aa) the prescribed signal of distress;”.
(a) by omitting sub-regulation (6) and substituting the following sub-regulation:
“ (6) A person operating a radio station who has knowledge of any distress traffic but is not taking part in the distress traffic shall not while the distress traffic continues—
(a) transmit on the radio frequency used for the distress traffic; or
(b) resume the normal service of his own radio station unless—
(i) the distress traffic is well established; and
(ii) the resumption will not interfere with the distress traffic.
Penalty: $100.”;
(b) by inserting after sub-regulation (7) the following sub-regulation:
“ (7a) When distress traffic has not ceased but radio silence is no longer necessary, the person who has controlled the distress traffic shall transmit on the distress frequency and on any other radio frequency used for the distress traffic a message addressed to all radio stations—
(a) where the distress traffic was conducted by radio-telegraphy, in the following form:
(i) the prescribed signal of distress;
(ii) the group of letters ‘ CQ ’, repeated 3 times;
(iii) the word ‘ DE ’;
(iv) the call sign of his own radio station;
(v) the time of handing in the message for transmission;
(vi) the name and call sign of the radio station of the ship or aircraft in distress; and
(vii) the group of letters ‘ QUZ ’; or
(b) where the distress traffic was conducted by radio-telephony, in the following form:
(i) the prescribed signal of distress;
(ii) the words ‘ HELLO ALL STATIONS ’, spoken 3 times or the group of letters ‘ CQ ’, spoken 3 times;
(iii) the words ‘ THIS IS ’;
(iv) the call sign of his own radio station;
(v) the time of handing in the message for transmission;
(vi) the name and call sign of the radio station of the ship or aircraft in distress; and
(vii) the word ‘ PRU-DONCE ’.”;
(c) by omitting from sub-regulation (8) “ or when radio silence is no longer necessary ”; and
(d) by omitting sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (8) and substituting the following subparagraph:
“ (ii) the words ‘ HELLO ALL STATIONS ’, spoken 3 times or the group of letters ‘ CQ ’, spoken 3 times;”.
(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1) “ auto-alarm ” and substituting “ radiotelegraph auto-alarm ”;
(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (3) “ auto-alarm ” and substituting “ radiotelegraph auto-alarm ”;
(c) by omitting from sub-regulation (6) “ auto-alarm ” (wherever occurring) and substituting “ radiotelegraph auto-alarm ”; and
(d) by omitting from sub-regulation (7) “ auto-alarm ” (wherever occurring) and substituting “ radiotelegraph auto-alarm ”.
(a) by omitting paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (1) and substituting the following paragraph:
“ (b) in radiotelephony—three repetitions of the words ‘ PAN PAN ’.”;
(b) by inserting in sub-regulation (2) “ (other than a vital navigational warning message)” after “ message to transmit ”;
(c) by omitting from sub-regulation (3) “ The radio frequency ” and substituting “ Subject to sub-regulation (3a), the radio frequency ”; and
(d) by inserting after sub-regulation (3) the following sub-regulation:
“ (3a) Where the message that follows a prescribed urgency signal is a long message, a medical call or, in an area of heavy radio traffic, a repeated message, the radio frequency used for that message—
(a) shall be a frequency ether than that referred to in sub-regulation (3); and
(b) shall be specified at the end of the message.”.
“ 19a. (1) A coast radio station shall, before transmitting a vital navigational warning message, transmit for a period of 15 seconds a navigational warning signal consisting of a substantially sinusoidal tone having a frequency of 2200 hertz and a duration of 250 milliseconds alternating with a period of silence of the same duration.
“ (2) A vital navigational warning message has priority over all other radio communications except distress traffic and prescribed urgency signals.”.
“(2) A prescribed safety signal shall be used for the purpose of giving notice that the calling radio station has a danger message to transmit concerning an important navigational or meteorological warning.”.
(a) by omitting from sub-paragraph (vii) of paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (2) “ the Schedule to these Regulations ” and substituting “ Schedule 2 ”;
(b) by omitting from paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (2) “ the Schedule to these Regulations ” and substituting “ Schedule 2 ”;
(c) by omitting from sub-paragraph (iv) of paragraph (d) of sub-regulation (2) “ the Schedule to these Regulations ” and substituting “ Schedule 2 ”; and
(d) by omitting from sub-regulation (6)“ is such a working frequency as is ” and substituting “ shall be ”.
SCHEDULE 1 Regulation 12
Region 1 consists of—
(a) the area limited on the east by line A and on the west by line B;
(b) those parts of Turkey and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics lying outside the area referred to in paragraph (a);
(c) the Mongolian People’s Republic; and
(d) the area to the north of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics that lies between line A and line C,
but does not include that part of Iran that lies between line A and line B.
Region 2 consists of the area limited on the east by line B and on the west by line C.
Region 3 consists of—
(a) the area limited on the east by line C and on the west by line A; and
(b) that part of Iran that lies outside the area between line C and line A,
but does not include—
(c) the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics;
(d) the Mongolian People’s Republic;
(e) Turkey; or
(f) the area to the north of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics that lies between line C and line A.
For the purposes of this Schedule-
(a) a reference to line A is a reference to an imaginary line extending from the North Pole along meridian 40° east longitude to parallel 40° north latitude, then following the great circle arc to the intersection of meridian 60° east longitude and the Tropic of Cancer, then following meridian 60° east longitude to the South Pole;
(b) a reference to line B is a reference to an imaginary line extending from the North Pole along meridian 10° west longitude to its intersection with parallel 72° north latitude, then following the great circle arc to the intersection of meridian 50° west longitude and parallel 40° north latitude, then following the great circle arc to the intersection of meridian 20° west longitude and parallel 10° south latitude, then following meridian 20° west longitude to the South Pole; and
(c) a reference to line C is a reference to an imaginary line extending from the North Pole along the great circle arc to the intersection of parallel 65° 30΄ north latitude with the international boundary in the Behring Strait, then following the great circle arc to the intersection of meridian 165° east longitude and parallel 50° north latitude, then following the great circle arc to the intersection of meridian 170° west longitude and parallel 10° north latitude, then following parallel 10° north latitude to its intersection with meridian 120° west longitude, then following meridian 120° west longitude to the South Pole.
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