Ships (Capital Grants) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1995

No. 73 1

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Ships (Capital Grants) Regulations 2(Amendment)

I, The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Ships (Capital Grants) Act 1987.

Dated 4 April 1995.

 BILL HAYDEN

 Governor-General

 By His Excellency’s Command,

NEIL O’KEEFE

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Transport

for the Minister for Transport

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1.   Commencement

1.1   Regulations 3.1 and 4.1 are taken to have commenced on 17 December 1993.

[NOTE: The remaining Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s. 48.]

2.   Amendment

2.1   The Ships (Capital Grants) Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

3.   Regulation 1A (Interpretation)

3.1   Insert the following definition:

“ ‘Queenscliff’ means the ship of that name that is registered in Australia as a vehicle and passenger ferry;”.

4.   Regulation 3 (Declarations: categories of ships—paragraph 6 (2) (a) of the Act)

4.1   Add at the end:

“(6)

For the purposes of paragraph 6 (2) (a) of the Act, the Queenscliff constitutes a category of ships when it is:

• (a)

  on voyages undertaken primarily during the hours of daylight within the ports of Melbourne, Geelong and Queenscliff and inside the heads of Port Phillip; or

• (b)

  on voyages between places in Australia (except voyages on which passengers or vehicles are carried) made for the purpose of repairing or maintaining the ship.

“(7)

In paragraph (6) (a), ‘inside the heads of Port Phillip’ means waters to the landward side of a line joining Point Lonsdale (38° 17’ 38” S: 144° 36’ 47” E) and Point Nepean (38° 18’ 15” S: 144° 39’ 0” E).”.

5.   Regulation 4 (Prescribed maximum crew numbers— categories under regulation 3)

5.1   Add at the end:

“(6)

For the purposes of paragraph 7 (1) (c) of the Act, the maximum crew number for the Queenscliff when it is on a voyage referred to in subregulation 3 (6) is 10.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 11April 1995.

2. Statutory Rules 1987 No. 213 as amended by 1988 No. 279; 1989 Nos. 317 and 385; 1990 Nos. 256 and 410; 1991 Nos. 53 and 412; 1992 No. 411; 1993 No. 287.