Navigation (Deck Cargo) Regulations (Repeal) 1998 No. 12
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1998 NO. 12
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Workplace Relations and Small Business
Navigation Act 1912
Navigation (Deck Cargo) Regulations (Repeal)
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 required or permitted to be prescribed or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.
Under subsection 425(1AA) of the Act the Australian Maritime Safety Authority has power to make orders with respect to matters in Part IV of the Act in relation to which provision may be made by regulations.
The Navigation (Deck Cargo) Regulations, made pursuant to subsection 425(1), prescribe matters for the purposes of Part IV (Ships and Shipping) of the Act
The giving of notice of intention to load deck cargo on a ship Stability of a ship that carries deck cargo
Safe stowage of and securing deck cargo on a ship
The above mentioned requirements will be replaced with provisions of Marine Orders Part 42, made pursuant to subsection 425(1AA) of the Act with effect from 16 February. 1998, in accordance with a policy pursued since February 1981 to incorporate the detailed subordinate requirements of the Act in Marine Orders.
The repealing regulations will come into force on 16 February 1998.