EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Statutory Rules 1988 No. 240
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Land Transport and Shipping Support
Subject - Navigation Act 1912
Navigation (Coasting Trade) Regulations (Amendment)
Navigation (Compass) Regulations (Amendment)
Navigation (Tonnage Measurement) Regulations (Amendment)
Subsection 425(1) of the Navigation Act 1912 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing all matters which by the Act are required or permitted to be prescribed or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for the carrying out or giving effect to the Act or for the conduct of any business under the Act, and in particular prescribing matters providing for and in relation to the fixing of fees to be paid in respect of any matters under the Act.
The abovementioned Regulations are made pursuant to that subsection.
Fees payable under the Act for services provided under the Act were last adjusted in October 1987. In accordance with the Government’s policy of cost recovery in relation to those services it is necessary to amend the abovementioned Regulations to meet cost increases since the last adjustment.
Details of the amending Regulations are given in the following Attachments:
Attachment 1 - Navigation (Coasting Trade) Regulations
Attachment 2 - Navigation (Compass) Regulations
Attachment 3 - Navigation (Tonnage Measurement) Regulations
Attachment 2
Navigation (Compass) Regulations (Amendment)
The amending Regulations amend the Navigation (Compass) Regulations as follows:
Regulation 1 provides that the Regulations shall come into operation on 1 October 1988.
Regulation 2 amends the existing Regulations by:
(a) increasing the fee payable under regulation 12A for an examination for a compass adjuster’s licence from $155 to $168; and
(b) increasing the fee payable under subregulation 17(6) for a requested, unprescribed inspection of any of a ship’s compasses from $101 to $161.