Western Australian Marine Act Amendment Act 1953 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MARINE.

2° Elizabeth II., No. LXXXII.

No. 82 of 1953.

AN ACT to amend the Western Australian Marine

Act, 1948-1952.

[Assented to 18th January, 1954.]

BE it enacted, by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Western Vi'd'Iitleon.

Australian Marine Act Amendment Act, 1953.

(2) In this Act the Western Australian Marine Act, 1948-1952,

Act No. 72 of 1948 as amended by Act No. 62 of 1952,

is referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Western Australian Marine Act, 1948-1953.

No. 82.] Western Australian Marine. [1953.

S. 96

amended. 2.

Section ninety-six of the principal Act is

amended by adding after subsection (2) the follow-

ing subsection:

(3) In this section, "ship" includes vessel licensed under the Whaling Act, 1937, and vessel licensed under the Fisheries Act, 1905.

8. 97 3.

Section ninety-seven of the principal Act is amended by adding after the words, "river ship" appearing firstly in line two of paragraph (a) of subsection (1) and again in line four of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) the words, "or vessel licensed under the Whaling Act, 1937, or vessel licensed under the Fisheries Act, 1905".

amended.

S. 183

amended.	4. Paragraph (ii) of the interpretation, "vessel" in section one hundred and eighty-three of the principal Act is amended by deleting the dash and figures
Cf. No. 30 of
1918, S. 14.

(a) "-1935" in line two; and

(b) "-1947" in line three.

S. 184

amended.	5. Section one hundred and eighty-four of the
of. No. 30 of

1918, S. 14.

principal Act is amended by deleting the dash and

figures

(a) "-1935" in line three; and

(b) "-1947" in line four.

S. 184A

added. 6. The principal Act is amended by adding after

section one hundred and eighty-four the following

section:—

Compliance

with	184A. No person shall get under way or
regulations

relating to attempt to get under way a vessel licensed under

manning

and other the Whaling Act, 1937, or a vessel licensed under

provisions. the Fisheries Act, 1905, unless the vessel is

manned in accordance with the regulations made under this Part nor unless the provisions of this Act and the regulations made and the conditions imposed under this Act and applying to the vessel are complied with.

1953.] Western Australian Marine. [No. 82.

7. Subsection (1) of section two hundred and amended.

four of the principal Act is amended by adding after

paragraph (w) the following paragraph:—

(wa) (i) the manning of vessels and classes of vessels licensed under the Whaling Act, 1937, and the manning of vessels and classes of vessels licensed under the Fisheries Act, 1905;

(ii)   the age, nationality, qualifications, physical condition including standard of sight and hearing, knowledge of the English language, character, compet- ency, and examinations, of persons permitted to be engaged on those vessels;

(iii)    certificates issuable to, and required to be held by, those persons and the cancellation of those certificates and the replacement of those certificates when lost; and

(iv)    fees payable in respect of those exam- inations and certificates.