Pearling Amendment Regulations 1990 (WA)

206 GOVERNMENT GAZE]. lb, WA [19 January 1990

PEARLING ACT 1912
PEARLING AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 1990

Made by His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor and Administrator in Execu- tive Council,

Citation

1. These regulations may be cited as the Pearling Amendment Regulations

1990.

Principal regulations

2. In these regulations the Pearling Regulations 1926* are referred to as the

principal regulations.

[*Published in the Gazette of 22 October 1926 at pp. 2127-2145. For amendments to 27 December 1989 see p. 326-327 of 1988 Index to Legislation of Western Australia.]

Regulation 21 amended

3. Regulation 21 of the principal regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting after the regulation designation "21." the following

subregulation designation--

" (1) ";

By This Excellency's Command, G. PEARCE, Clerk of the Council.

(b) by deleting "and shall have received a certificate to the effect that he

was not at the time of the said examination suffering from any disease, complaint or infirmity likely to render the occupation of diving specially dangerous to him" and substituting the following—

in accordance with Appendix A of Australian Standard 2299-1979 "Underwater air breathing operations" and has received a certifi- cate from that medical practitioner to the effect that—

(a) the medical practitioner has examined him in accordance

with Appendix A of that Australian Standard; and

(b)	in the opinion of the medical practitioner, he is fit to work
as a professional diver using a diving apparatus for 12 months from the date of the certificate. "; and

(c) by inserting after subregulation (1) the following subregulation—

(2) That part of the Appendix referred to in subregulation (1) which provides that medical examinations for commercial divers are to be carried out 6 monthly does not apply in respect of examinations carried out under this regulation. ".