EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES NO 232 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 4
NAVIGATION (DECK CARGO) REGULATIONS
The Regulations amend the Navigation (Deck Cargo) Regulations as follows:
Regulation 1 provides that the Regulations come into operation on 19 October 1987.
Regulation 2 amends existing regulation 6 by:
(a) reducing the fee payable under paragraph 5(a) for the first visit by a surveyor to inspect a ship in connection with the loading of deck cargo from $172 to $146;
(b) increasing the fee payable under paragraph 5(b) for each visit subsequent to the visit referred to in (a) from $86 to $97;
(c) increasing the fee payable under paragraphs 6(a) and (b) for out of hours attendance by a surveyor from an hourly rate of $35 to $36;
(d) increasing the fee payable under paragraph 6(b) for out of hours attendance by a surveyor from a minimum fee of $105 to $108; and
(e) increasing the fee payable under subregulation (8) for causing a surveyor to wait to commence or continue a requested inspection of a ship from an hourly rate of $70 to $97.