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

STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 122.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912-1935.*

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 1912-1935.

Dated this Eleventh

day of March , 1942.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Commerce.

 

Amendment of the Navigation (Wireless Telegraphy) Regulations.

1. After regulation 9 of the Navigation (Wireless Telegraphy) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Wireless equipment on lifeboats.

“9a.— (1.) Every ship to which these Regulations apply shall be provided with—

(a)two approved aerial masts, one of which shall be kept in a lifeboat on the port side and the other in a lifeboat on the starboard side of the ship, together with a length of aerial wire to be kept with the apparatus mentioned in paragraph (b) of this sub-regulation;

(b)an approved portable wireless transmitting apparatus which shall be kept in the chart room or other approved room ready to be placed in one or other of the lifeboats mentioned in paragraph (a)of this sub-regulation for immediate use in the event of an emergency; and

(c) approved means, which shall be kept in the same room as the transmitting apparatus, of charging the batteries of the apparatus.

“(2.) All batteries for use in connexion with the transmitting apparatus shall be fully charged once a month. A record of all such chargings shall be made by the master of the ship and kept in the chart room.

“(3.) Nothing in this regulation shall apply in the case of ships which, in pursuance of the Navigation (Life-saving Appliances) Regulations, carry one or more motor lifeboats fitted with a wireless telegraphy installation approved by the Director.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on   , 1942.

  Statutory Rules 1935, No. 64, as amended and 1935, No. 81;and 1937, No. 92.

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“(4.) For the purposes of this Regulation, unless the contrary intention appears, ‘approved’ means approved by the Postmaster-General.”.

Time for compliance with Regulations.

2. The provisions of the regulation inserted by these Regulations shall be complied with in relation to any ship to which that regulation applies before the commencement of the first voyage after these Regulations come into operation, or, where the Director is satisfied that it is impracticable to obtain the necessary apparatus before the commencement of that voyage, before the commencement of such later voyage as the Director specifies.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.