Navigation (Survey) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1980 No. 248

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 19121

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 Navigation Act 1912.

Dated this nineteenth day of August 1980.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

RALPH J. HUNT

Minister of State for Transport

Amendments of the Navigation (Survey) Regulations2

Interpretation

 1. Regulation 4 of the Navigation (Survey) Regulations is amended by inserting after the definition of "prescribed authority" in sub-regulation (1) the following definition:

“ ‘prescribed ship’ means a cargo ship in respect of which the Minister has certified in writing that the ship cannot, by reason of its special design, enter any dry-dock situated in Australia;”.

 2.Regulation 11 of the Navigation (Survey) Regulations is repealed and the following regulations are substituted:

Survey of hull, rudder, &c., of certain ships

• “11.

  (1) Except in the case of —

  • (a)

    a prescribed ship; or

  • (b)

    a small ship a survey of which the surveyor is satisfied can be carried out in an efficient manner while the ship is laid over on a beach or bank left dry at low tide,

a survey of the outside of the bottom of the hull of a ship and of its rudder or rudders, propeller or propellers, shafts and underwater fittings shall be carried out while the ship is in dry-dock or on a slip.

• “(2)

  A survey of a rudder, or of the outside of the bottom of the hull, of a ship shall be carried out after the rudder and the bottom of the hull have been cleaned and before they are painted.

Survey of hull, rudder, &c., of prescribed ship

• “11A.

  (1) Subject to sub-regulation (5), a survey of the outside of the bottom of the hull of a prescribed ship and of its rudder or rudders, propeller or propellers, shafts and underwater fittings may be carried out while the ship is in water.

• “(2)

  Where, after surveying in accordance with sub-regulation (1) a part of a prescribed ship referred to in that sub-regulation, a surveyor reports that it is necessary, in order to ascertain the condition of the part, that the part should be surveyed while the ship is out of water, the Minister may direct in writing that a survey of the part be carried out while the ship is out of water.

• “(3)

  Where the Minister gives a direction in respect of a prescribed ship under sub‑regulation (2), the ship shall be surveyed in accordance with the direction.

• “(4)

  Subject to sub-regulation (5), a survey in accordance with sub- regulation (1) or (3) of a part of a prescribed ship referred to in sub-regulation (1) shall be carried out once in every period of 30 months.

• “(5)

  Where a screw shaft or a tube shaft of a prescribed ship is of special construction, the Minister may direct that the shaft be surveyed in such manner as the Minister specifies and within such period, being a period longer than the period specified in sub‑regulation (4), as the Minister specifies.”.

Inspection of hull of cargo ships

 3. Regulation 13A of the Navigation (Survey) Regulations is amended by omitting “two years” and substituting “period of 30 months”.

Opening up for inspection of certain cargo ships

 4. Regulation 14 of the Navigation (Survey) Regulations is amended —

• (a)

  by inserting in sub-regulation (1) “, other than a prescribed ship,” after “cargo ship” (first occurring); and

• (b)

  by omitting from sub-regulation (2) “two years” and substituting “period of 30 months”.

Opening up for inspection of parts of River Murray ships

 5. Regulation 15 of the Navigation (Survey) Regulations is amended by inserting in sub‑regulation (1) “or rudders” after “rudder”.

Third Schedule

 6. The Third Schedule to the Navigation (Survey) Regulations is amended —

• (a)

  by omitting from sub-item (1) of item 2 “two years” and substituting "period of 30 months”; and

• (b)

  by omitting from sub-item (2) of item 2 “in the case of a single screw ship”.

 

Notes

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 27 August 1980.

2. Statutory Rules 1968 No. 41 as amended by Statutory Rules 1969 No. 203; 1972 Nos. 42 and 193; 1975 No. 113; 1976 Nos. 119 and 284; 1977 No. 273; 1978 No. 222; 1979 No. 199.