Navigation (Wireless Telegraphy) Regulations 1924 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1929. No. 69.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912-1926.

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 1912-1926, to come into operation, as regards regulations 1, 2, 3 and 4, on the first day of October, 1929, and, as regards regulation 5, forthwith.

Dated this seventeenth day of June, 1929.

STONEHAVEN

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

H. S. GULLETT

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

 

Amendment of Navigation (Wireless Telegraphy) Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1924, No. 72, as amended by Statutory Rules 1926, No. 65, and 1929, No. 53.)

1. Regulation 2 of the Navigation (Wireless Telegraphy) Regulations is amended by inserting after the definition of “automatic apparatus” the following definition—

“alarm signal” means the alarm signal prescribed by the Navigation (Distress Signals and Danger Calls) Regulations as constituting the first part of the Wireless Distress Call.”

2. Regulation 9a of the Navigation (Wireless Telegraphy) Regulations is amended by omitting the words “signal of distress” and inserting in their stead the words “alarm signal”.

3. Regulation 10 of the Navigation (Wireless Telegraphy) Regulations is amended by omitting the words “signal of distress” and inserting in their stead the words “alarm signal”.

4. Regulation 11 of the Navigation (Wireless Telegraphy) Regulations is amended by omitting the words “signal of distress” twice occurring, and inserting in their stead the words “alarm signal”.

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5. Regulation 13 of the Navigation (Wireless Telegraphy) Regulations is amended by omitting paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“(a) An operator shall be deemed to hold a First-Grade Certificate if he holds a First-Class Certificate of Proficiency issued by the Postmaster-General under the provisions of the International Radiotelegraph Convention (London), 1912, or the Postmaster-General’s First or Second-Class Certificate of Proficiency issued under the provisions of the International Radiotelegraph Convention (Washington), 1927, and who has had at least three years’ experience as an operator.”

 

By Authority: H. J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra.