Navigation (Survey and Equipment) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1923. No. 196.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912‑1920.

I, 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 1912‑1920, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this eleventh day of December, 1923.

FORSTER,

Governor‑General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

AUSTIN CHAPMAN,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

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Amendment of Navigation(Survey and Equipment) Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1923 No. 131.)

Ships to have certificate of survey or equipment

1. Regulation 6 of the Navigation (Survey and Equipment) Regulations is amended by inserting at the end thereof the words “Penalty: Fifty pounds.”

Certain passenger steamships to have double bottoms.

2. After regulation 28 of the Navigation (Survey and Equipment) Regulations the following regulation is added:—

“29. (1.) Every passenger steam‑ship (other than a river and bay steam‑ship) to which these Regulations apply, 200 feet or over in length, and whose keel was laid after the first day of January, 1916, shall be fitted with a double bottom in accordance with the *Regulations or Instructions made and issued, or which may hereafter be made and issued, by the Board of Trade of the United Kingdom as a condition precedent to the grant of certificates of survey to foreign‑going passenger steamers.

Certain cargo steamships to have double bottoms.

(2.) Every cargo steam‑ship (other than a river and bay steamship) to which these Regulations apply, 200 feet or over in length, and whose keel is laid after the first day of January, 1925, shall be fitted with a double bottom in accordance with the following requirements:—

Longitudinal extent.

(a) In the case of steam‑ships 200 feet and under 249 feet in length, the double bottom shall be fitted at least from the machinery space to the forepeak bulkhead, or as near thereto as practicable.

(b) In the case of steam‑ships 249 feet and under 300 feet in length, the double bottom shall be fitted at least outside of the machinery space, and shall extend to the fore and after peak bulkheads respectively, or as near thereto as practicable.

*Note.—The Regulations at present in force are contained in a pamphlet issued by the Board of Trade entitled “Instructions relating to the Construction of Passenger Steamships.”

C. 19060.—Price 3d.

(c) In the case of steam‑ships 300 feet and over in length, the double bottom shall be fitted amidships and shall extend to the fore and after peak bulkheads respectively, or as near thereto as practicable.

Vertical extent.

(d) In the case of steam‑ships over 300 feet in length, the inner bottom shall be continued out to the ship’s side in such manner as to protect the bilges. The tank top plating should be carried out to the ship’s side at a height not less than that at the centre, where this is practicable. Where necessary for drainage purposes however, the outer edge of the margin plate may be lowered, provided the line of intersection with the bilge plating is not less than 2½ per cent.. of the vessel’s breadth above the line of the rise of floor.

(e) In the case of steam‑ships over 699 feet in length, the double bottom, for at least half the ship’s length amidships and forward to the forepeak bulkhead, shall extend up the ship’s sides to a height above the top of the keel not less than 10 per cent. of the ship’s moulded breadth.

Wells in double bottom.

(f)Wells constructed in the double bottom in connection with the drainage arrangements shall not extend downwards from the inner bottom more than half the depth of the double bottom at that point. A well extending to the outer skin is, however, permitted at the after end of the shaft tunnels of screw steam‑ships.

Power to exempt in special cases.

(3.) Where, in regard to any steam‑ship, the Director is satisfied that special circumstances or the nature of the trade in which the ship is employed render compliance with the requirements of this regulation unnecessary or impracticable, he may, by writing under his hand, exempt the ship from any or all of those requirements.”

 

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