War Precautions Regulations 1915 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1918. No. 256.

REGULATION UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1916.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the War Precautions Act 1914-1916, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-fifth day of September, 1918.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendment of War Precautions Regulations 1915.

(Statutory Rules 1915, No. 130.)

After regulation 38 of the War Precautions Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Installation of wireless equipment on vessels.

“38a.—(1.) Every vessel, in respect of which a licence has been granted under regulation 4 of the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations 1916, shall, before proceeding to sea from any port in Australia, be equipped with an efficient apparatus for wireless communication.

“(2.) Such apparatus shall be in charge of one or more operators holding a certificate of competency or certificates of competency issued by the Naval Board after examination, or by the Postmaster-General of the United Kingdom, or by the proper authority in any part of the British Empire.

“(3.) Suitable accommodation shall be provided on the ship for the apparatus and the operators.

“(4.) The master, owners, agents, or charterer of any vessel in respect of which a licence has not been granted under regulation 4 of the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations 1916 shall, before proceeding to sea from any port in Australia, apply for a licence under that regulation and shall not permit the vessel to proceed to sea until the licence has been granted.

“(5.) For the purposes of this regulation, apparatus for wireless communication shall not be deemed to be efficient unless—

(a) it is capable of transmitting and receiving messages over a distance of at least one hundred and fifty miles day or night; and

(b) it includes emergency transmitting apparatus which can be operated independently of the power supply of the vessel, such apparatus to have a range of not less than one hundred miles by day, and to be capable of working continuously for six hours.

 

“(6.) The Naval Board may—

(a) direct the number of operators which a vessel shall carry; and

(b) exempt any vessel from complying with the provisions of this regulation.

“(7.) If the provisions of this regulation are not complied with in respect of any vessel, the master, owners, agents and charterers of the vessel shall severally be guilty of an offence.

“(8.) In this regulation ‘vessel’ means any vessel of one thousand six hundred gross tons or upwards which is registered in Australia or engaged only in carrying passengers or cargo from any port in any State or Territory of the Commonwealth to any other port in the same State or Territory or in any other State or Territory.”

 

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