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

STATUTORY RULES.

1921. No. 179.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912-1920.

(Second Amendment, 1921.)

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 on and from the first day of October, 1921.

Dated this fourteenth day of September, 1921.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. MASSY GREENE,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

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Amendment of Navigation (Wireless Telegraphy) Regulations.

(Statutory Rules, 1921, No. 104.)

Qualifications of operators and watchers.

The Navigation (Wireless. Telegraphy) Regulations 1921 are amended:—

(a) By inserting at the end of paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (1) of regulation 13 the following proviso:—

“Provided that, where it is shown to the satisfaction of the Director of Navigation that a sufficiency of operators holding First or Second Class Certificates of Proficiency issued by the Postmaster-General and having at least one year's experience as an operator are not available in the Commonwealth, he may, to the extent of the deficiency in numbers of such operators, by writing under his hand, permit of the employment, as Second Grade Operators, of persons holding First or Second Class Certificates of Proficiency but with less than one year’s experience as operators, and such persons so employed shall be deemed to be Second Grade Operators for the purposes of these Regulations”; and

(b) By inserting at the end of the Schedule thereto the following proviso:—

Schedule.

“Provided that, until otherwise prescribed, the times of watch for operators on Australian-trade and limited coast-trade ships to which these Regulations apply may, in lieu of those set out in this Schedule, and at the option of the owner, be in accordance with the provisions of the agreement between the Commonwealth Steamship Owners' Association and others, of the one part, and the Radio-Telegraphists’ (Marine) Institute of Australasia, of the other part, dated the 29th March, 1920, certified in the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration on 22nd September, 1920.”

N.21/5562, 6039.

  

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