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

STATUTORY RULES.

1929. No. 53.

 

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 on 1st October, 1929.

Dated this twenty-third day of May, 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.)

1. Regulation 6 of the Navigation (Wireless Telegraphy) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2).

2. The Navigation (Wireless Telegraphy) Regulations are amended by inserting after regulation 9 the following regulation:—

“9a.—A ship of Class II. or Class III. shall be fitted with an automatic apparatus, of a type* approved by the Board of Trade of the United Kingdom, for registering the wireless signal of distress prescribed by the Navigation (Distress Signals and Danger Calls) Regulations for use by a vessel in distress, unless the duration of the voyage on which the ship is employed does not exceed eight hours from port to port:

Provided that this Regulation shall not apply to a ship so long as it complies with the requirements of regulation 10 for a ship of Class I.”

*Note.—Particulars as to the conditions to be complied with as regards such an apparatus, in order to receive the approval of the Board of Trade, are contained in Schedule II. to the Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraphy) Rules 1927, being Statutory Rules and Orders 1927, No. 529, issued by the Board of Trade.

 

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

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