Navigation (Supplementary) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1972 No. 116

REGULATION UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912-1972.*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Navigation Act 1912-1972.

Dated this fourteenth day of July, 1972.

Rohan Delacombe

Administrator

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Shipping and Transport.

 

Amendment of the Navigation (Supplementary) Regulations

Regulation 2 of the Navigation (Supplementary) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Prescribed Officer to give notice of detention, &c.

“2.—(1.) For the purposes of sub-section (1.) of section 192a of the Navigation Act 1912-1972, the prescribed officer is--

(a) in relation to the detention of a foreign ship—the Secretary to the Department of Shipping and Transport;

(b) in relation to proceedings instituted in a State against the owner or master of a foreign ship— the Regional Controller for that State; or

(c) in relation to proceedings instituted in the Northern Territory of Australia against the owner or master of a foreign ship—the Regional Controller for the State of Western Australia.

“(2.) In the last preceding sub-regulation, a reference to the Regional Controller for a State shall be read as a reference to the person for the time being performing the duties of the office of Regional Controller, Department of Shipping and Transport, in that State.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1972.

  Statutory Rules 1963, No. 98, as amended by Statutory Rules 1964, No. 38; and 1965, No. 113.

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