EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES NO 230 OF 1987
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Land Transport and Infrastructure Support
Subject: Navigation Act 1912 -
Navigation (Coasting Trade) Regulations (Amendment)
Navigation (Compass) Regulations (Amendment)
Navigation (Construction) Regulations (Amendment)
Navigation (Deck Cargo) 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 this Act are required or permitted to be prescribed or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this 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 to the maritime industry were last adjusted in October 1986.
In accordance with the Government’s policy of cost recovery in relation to those services it is necessary to amend the abovementioned Regulations.
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 (Construction) Regulations
Attachment 4 - Navigation (Deck Cargo) Regulations
Attachment 5 - Navigation (Tonnage Measurement) Regulations
ATTACHMENT 2
NAVIGATION (COMPASS) REGULATIONS
The Regulations amend the Navigation (Compass) Regulations as follows:
Regulation 1 provides that the Regulations come into operation on 19 October 1987.
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 $147 to $155;
(b) amending the fee payable under subregulation 17(2) for a compass adjuster to perform his services, in the case of:
(i) a ship the gross registered tonnage of which is under 50 tons - from $234 to $291;
(ii) a ship the gross registered tonnage of which is 50 tons or over but under 250 tons - from $311 to $291;
(iii) a ship the gross registered tonnage of which is 250 tons or over but under 1000 tons -from $468 to $485;
(iv) a ship the gross registered tonnage of which is 1000 tons or over but under 3000 tons -from $624 to $485; and
(v) a ship the gross registered tonnage of which is 3000 tons or over - from $935 to $485;
(c) increasing the fee payable under paragraphs 17(3)(a) and (b) for out of hours attendance by a compass adjuster (a surveyor) from an hourly rate of $35 to $36;
(d) increasing the fee payable under paragraph 17(3)(b) for out of hours attendance by a compass adjuster from a minimum fee of $105 to $108;
(e) increasing the fee payable under subregulation 17(4) for the cancellation by the owner, master or agent of a ship, of a requested examination or adjustment of the ship’s compasses by a compass adjuster from $108 to $111;
(f) increasing the fee payable under subregulation 17(5) for causing a compass adjuster to wait to commence or continue a requested examination or adjustment of a ship’s compasses from an hourly rate of $70 to $97; and
(g) increasing the fee payable under subregulation 17(b) for a requested, unprescribed inspection of any of a ship’s compasses from $94 to $101.