STATUTORY RULES
1970 No. 66
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912-1970.*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council hereby make the following Regulations under the Navigation Act 1912-1970.
Dated this twelfth day of May, 1970.
Paul Hasluck
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for Shipping and Transport.
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Amendments of the Navigation (Dangerous Goods) Regulations†
Classes of dangerous goods.
1. Regulation 5 of the Navigation (Dangerous Goods) Regulations is amended by omitting all the words and figures from and including the word and figure “Class 9” to the end of the regulation and inserting in their stead the following words:—
“Class 9—Miscellaneous dangerous substances not included in any of the foregoing classes.”.
2. Regulation 6 of the Navigation (Dangerous Goods) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—
Conditions in relation to the packing, stowing and carriage of dangerous goods.
“6.—(1.) For the purposes of section 253a of the Act, the Minister may determine in writing requirements with which dangerous goods, and the packing, stowing and carriage of dangerous goods, shall comply.
“(2.) Where a determination is made under the last preceding sub-regulation—
(a) notice of the making of the determination shall be published in the Gazette as soon as practicable after the making of the determination; and
(b) a copy of the determination shall be laid before each House of the Parliament within fifteen sitting days of that House after the making of the determination.”.
Passenger ships.
3. Regulation 10 of the Navigation (Dangerous Goods) Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1.) the words “included in a class of explosives” and inserting in their stead the words “explosives of a kind”; and
(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (3.) the words “included in a class of dangerous goods” and inserting in their stead the words “of a kind”.
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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1970.
† Statutory Rules 1968, No. 26, as amended by Statutory Rules 1968, No. 139.
13160/70—Price 8c 10/13.4.1970
Second and Third Schedules.
4. The Second and Third Schedules to the Navigation (Dangerous Goods) Regulations are repealed and the following Schedules inserted in their stead:—
SECOND SCHEDULE Regulation 10 (1.).
KINDS OF EXPLOSIVES WHICH MAY BE TAKEN ON BOARD A PASSENGER SHIP
Atlas starter cartridges | Fiocchi shotshell primers No. G57F |
Battery pockets | Fiocchi shotshell primers No. W.W.209F |
Caps, percussion | Fuse indicator |
Cartridges, aiming, rifle | Giulio Fiocchi percussion caps cartucce rosse |
Cartridges, bolt | |
Cartridges, cable cutting | Giulio Fiocchi percussion caps No. 380 |
Cartridges, incendiary 12 gauge | Harpoon time fuses |
Cartridges, lightning surge indicator | Ignitacord connectors |
Cartridges, link | Igniter cord connectors |
Cartridges, M.L.., mortar | Igniters, safety |
Cartridges, pistol | Imperial No. 2 shotgun caps |
Cartridges, punch | Imperial No. 2 shotshell primers |
Cartridges, radar echo | Imperial small rifle primers—boxer type |
Cartridges, rimfire | Kynoch No. 81 percussion caps |
Cartridges, rocket | M.O.C. cartridges (Type 4) |
Cartridges, S.A., ball | Multiple safety fuse igniters |
Cartridges, S.A., piercing | Nobel’s electric delay action fuses |
Cartridges, S.A., separate | Patent safety electric fuses (Orion, Venus, Vulcan) |
Cartridges, S.A., tracer | |
Cartridges, shot gun | Percussion caps |
Cases, cartridge, capped | Percussion caps .303 specially packed |
C.C.I. primers No. 109 | Percussion caps for atlas starter cartridges |
C.I.L. No. 8½ primers | Primer for breechloading whaling gun |
D.A.G. percussion caps, No. 1786 | Primer for small arms |
D.A.G. percussion caps, No. 1961 | Quarrycord connectors |
D.A.G. percussion caps, No. 2841 | Railway fog signals |
D.A.G. percussion caps, No. 2845 | Railway track signals |
Electrical multiple fuse igniters | Safety cartridge cases (empty), capped |
Electric lighters for igniter cord | Safety cartridges |
Eley Kynoch No. 1a percussion caps | Safety cartridges for industrial tools |
Eley Kynoch No. 1b percussion caps | Safety cartridges unshotted |
Eley Kynoch No. 91 percussion caps | Safety fuse |
Eley Kynoch No. 175 small pistol primers | Safety instantaneous fuse |
Eley Kynoch No. 176 large rifle primers | Safety squibs |
Eley Kynoch No. 177 small rifle primers | Signals, fog |
Eley Kynoch No. 178 large pistol primers | Vihtavuori magnum 20 shotshell primers |
Explosive rivets | Winchester primers No. 209 |
THIRD SCHEDULE Regulation 10 (3.).
KINDS OF DANGEROUS GOODS WHICH MAY NOT BE TAKEN ON BOARD A PASSENGER SHIP
Class 2.—Gases that are compressed, liquefied or dissolved under pressure
Air, liquid | Ethyl amine |
Ammonia, anhydrous, liquefied | Ethylene, liquefied at ambient temperature |
Ammonia solution below S.G. 0.88 at 15º C. | Fluorine |
Boron trifluoride | Hexafluoropropylene |
Carbon monoxide | Hydrogen, compressed |
Chlorine | Hydrogen bromide, anhydrous |
Coal gas | Hydrogen chloride, anhydrous |
Cyanogen | Hydrogen cyanide |
Cyanogen chloride | Hydrogen fluoride, anhydrous |
Deuterium | Hydrogen-methane mixtures |
Diborane | Hydrogen sulphide, liquefied |
I.I.—difluoroethylene | Methane and natural gases with high methane content, compressed |
Dimethylamine, anhydrous | |
Ethane, liquefied at ambient temperature | Methylamine, anhydrous |
Third Schedule—continued
Methyl bromide, including fire extinguishers so filled | Oil gas, compressed |
Oxygen, liquefied | |
Methyl chloride | Phosgene |
Methyl chloride and methylene chloride mixtures | Silicon tetrafluoride |
Nitric oxide | Sulphur dioxide |
Nitric oxide and nitrogen tetroxide mixtures | Trimethylamine, anhydrous |
Nitrogen dioxide | Vinyl fluoride |
Nitrosyl chloride | Water gas |
Class 3—Inflammable Liquids
All inflammable liquids having a flashpoint below 0°F. (–18°C.) | Iron carbonyl |
Methyl chloroformate | |
Ethyl chloroformate | Nickel carbonyl |
Glyceryl trinitrate, solutions in ethyl alcohol | Zirconium suspended in inflammable liquid |
Class 4 (a)—Inflammable Solids
Ammonium picrate | Nitroguanidine |
Celloidin | Nitrostarch |
Dinitrophenol | Picric acid |
Dinitrophenolates | Sodium dinitro ortho cresolate |
Dinitroresorcinol | Sodium picramate |
Film, motion picture, nitrocellulose base, old film | Sulphur (bulk) |
Titanium, metal powder | |
Hafnium metal, powder | Toe puff materials, nitrocellulose base |
Lacquer base (dry), lacquer chips (dry), nitrocellulose base | Trinitrobenzene |
Trinitrobenzoic acid | |
Mischmetal, powder | Trinitrotoluene |
Nitrocellulose | Zirconium metal powder, wet or sludge |
Class 4 (b)—Inflammable solids, or substances, liable to spontaneous combustion
Bags, empty and unwashed, having previously contained potassium nitrate or sodium nitrate or when impregnated with oil or seedcake | Magnesium diphenyl |
Methyl aluminium sesquibromide | |
Methyl aluminium sesquichloride | |
Methyl magnesium bromide, in ethyl ether | |
Calcium dithionite | Pentaborane |
Celluloid, scrap | Phosphorous, white or yellow |
Diethyl magnesium | Potassium dithionite |
Dimethyl para nitrosoaniline, wetted with less than 50% by weight of water | Pyrophoric metals |
Sodium dithionite | |
Dimethylzinc | Zinc dithionite |
Fuel, pyrophoric | Zirconium, metal, dry powder or sponge, coiled wire, finished metal sheets, strip |
Iron oxide, spent | |
Iron sponge, spent | Zirconium, scrap, clippings, swarf or turnings |
Magnesium diamide |
Class 4 (c)—Inflammable solids, or substances, which in contact with water emit inflammable gases
Alkali metal amides | Magnesium hydride |
Alkali metal dispersions | Magnesium phosphide |
Alloys of alkaline earth metals non-pyrophoric | Potassium borohydride |
Potassium metal | |
Aluminium ferrosilicon, powder | Potassium metallic, liquid alloy |
Aluminium hydride | Potassium phosphide |
Aluminium silicon, powder uncoated | Potassium-sodium, alloy |
Barium alloys, non-pyrophoric | Rubidium, metal |
Caesium, metal | Sodium, metal |
Calcium, metal and alloys, non-pyrophoric | Sodium, metal, dispersion in organic solvent |
Calcium hydride | Sodium, metallic liquid alloy |
Calcium phosphide | Sodium amide |
Calcium silicide | Sodium borohydride |
Calcium silicon | Sodium hydride |
Ferrosilicon | Sodium methylate, dry |
Lithium, metal | Sodium phosphide |
Lithium aluminium hydride | Stannic phosphides |
Lithium aluminium hydride, ethereal | Strontium, alloys, non-pyrophoric |
Lithium amide, powder | Strontium phosphide |
Lithium borohydride | Titanium hydride |
Lithium hydride | Trichlorosilane |
Magnesium aluminium phosphide | Zirconium hydride |
Third Schedule—continued
Class 5 (a)—Oxidising Substances
Ammonium nitrate and mixtures thereof (packed in bags or in bulk) | organic matter in proportion to the ammonium nitrate content |
Ammonium perchlorate | Hydrogen peroxide concentrations of over 40% peroxide |
Barium chlorate | |
Binary mixtures of nitrogen/phosphate or nitrogen/potash types containing ammonium nitrate, chloride and not more than 0.4% organic matter in proportion to the ammonium nitrate content | Magnesium bromate |
Perchloric acid, over 50% and not exceeding 72% by weight of acid | |
Potassium bromate | |
Potassium chlorate | |
Calcium chlorate | Sodium bromate |
Calcium chlorite | Sodium chlorate |
Chloric acid | Sodium chlorite |
Complete fertilisers of nitrogen/phosphate/potash type containing ammonium nitrate chloride and not more than 0.4% | Strontium chlorate |
Zinc chlorate | |
Zirconium picramate |
Class 5 (b)—Organic Peroxides
Benzoyl peroxide wetted with less than 25% of water | Cumene hydroperoxide |
Cyclohexanone peroxide wetted with less than 259% of water | |
Tertiary butyl a.c. dimethylbenzyl peroxide | |
Tertiary butyl hydroperoxide | Di-tertiary butyl diperphthalate |
Iso butyl methyl ketone peroxide | Di-tertiary butyl peroxide |
Tertiary butyl peracetate | Di-(2, 4-dichlorobenzoyl) peroxide |
Tertiary butyl perbenzoate | Ethyl methyl ketone peroxide |
Tertiary butyl permaleate | Peracetic acid |
2,2-bis (tertiary butylperoxy) butane | Tetrahydronaphthalene hydroperoxide |
Class 6 (a)—Poisonous (Toxic) Substances
Acetone cyanohydrin stabilised | Hexaethyl tetraphosphate |
Allyl isothiocyanate stabilised | Hexaethyl tetraphosphate and compressed gas mixture |
Ammunition, tear producing non-explosive | |
Ammunition, toxic, non-explosive | Hydrocyanic acid |
Benzylidene chloride | Hydrogen cyanide, anhydrous stabilised, absorbed in a porous and inert material |
Bromoacetone | |
Bromobenzylcyanide | Methyl cyanide |
Cacodylic acid | Motor fuel anti-knock compounds containing tetraethyl lead or tetramethyl lead |
Chloroacetone stabilised | |
Chloroacetophenone | |
Chloropicrin | Perchloromethylmercaptan |
Chloropicrin and methyl bromide mixtures | Phenylcarbylamine chloride |
Chloropicrin and methyl chloride mixtures | Tear gas |
Cyanogen bromide | Tear gas candle, non-explosive |
Dimethyl sulphate | Tetraethyl dithiopyrophosphate and compressed gas mixture |
Diphenylamine chloroarsine | |
Diphenylchloroarsine | Tetraethyl pyrophosphate and compressed gas mixture |
Ethyl bromaacetate | |
Ethyl dichloroarsine | Tetraethyl pyrophosphate, liquid |
Halogenated irritating liquids | Xylyl bromide |
Class 8—Corrosives
Acid mixtures, hydrofluoric and sulphuric | Bromine trifluoride |
Acid mixtures, nitrating acid | Chlorine trifluoride |
Acid mixtures, spent | Chloroacetyl chloride |
Allyl chloroformate | Dichloroacetyl chloride |
Allyl iodide | Diphenylmethyl bromide |
Antimony pentafluoride | Fluorosulphonic acid |
Benzyl bromide | Hydrazine |
Benzyl chloride | Hydrofluoric acid, solution |
Benzyl chloroformate | Iodine monochloride |
Bombs, smoke, containing a corrosive liquid, non-explosive | Nitric acid, all concentrations |
Bromine and solutions of bromine | Nitric acid, red fuming |
Bromine pentafluoride | Nitrohydrochloric acid |
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