EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1983 NO 120
ISSUED BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE MINISTER OF STATE
FOR TRANSPORT
NAVIGATION (HEALTH) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
Sub-section 425(1) of the Navigation Act 1912 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 carrying out or giving effect to the Act or for the conduct of any business under the Act.
Sub-section 425(1) further provides, in particular, that the Governor-General may make regulations empowering the Minister to make orders for and in relation to the protection of the health of persons on board ships and to the fixing of fees to be paid in respect of any matters under orders made in pursuance of the regulations. Those orders are known collectively as ‘Marine Orders’ and include provisions which would otherwise appear in regulations under the Act.
Marine Orders, Part 2 (Fees) and Part 9 (Health - Medical Fitness) which came into operation on 1 August 1983 replaced, in part, the Navigation (Health) Regulations. Marine Orders, Part 2 (Fees) replaced Regulation 4 and Marine Orders, Part 9 (Health - Medical Fitness) replaced Regulations 5 and 6. These orders caused Regulations 4, 5 and 6 of the Navigation (Health) Regulations to become redundant.
The amendments of the Navigation (Health) Regulations repealed Regulations 4, 5 and 6 as from 1 August 1983.