Statutory Rules
1978 No. 131
REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Navigation Act 1912.
Dated this seventh day of July 1978.
ZELMAN COWEN
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
PETER NIXON
Minister of State for Transport
AMENDMENTS OF THE NAVIGATION (LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES) REGULATIONS†
Interpretation
1. Regulation 5 of the Navigation (Life-saving Appliances) Regulations is amended—
(a) by inserting after the definition of “ approved ” in sub-regulation (1) the following definition:
“ ‘ authorized officer ’ means a person holding, or for the time being performing the duties of, an office in the Department of Transport that is specified for the purposes of this definition by the Minister by instrument in writing;”; and
(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (1) the definition of “ Regional Controller ”.
Special exemption of intrastate ships
2. Regulation 79 of the Navigation (Life-saving Appliances) Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting from paragraph (c) “ a Regional Controller ” and substituting “ an authorized officer ”; and
* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 13 July 1978.
† Statutory Rules 1968, No. 34 as amended by Statutory Rules 1974, No. 238; 1975, No. 78; and 1978, No. 55.
(b) by omitting “ the Regional Controller ” and substituting “ the authorized officer ”.
Savings
3. Nothing in these Regulations affects the validity or efficacy of an exemption granted under the Navigation (Life-saving Appliances) Regulations as in force before the commencement of these Regulations and, for the purposes of the application to such an exemption of the Navigation (Life-saving Appliances) Regulations as amended by these Regulations, a reference in the exemption to “ Regional Controller ” shall be read as a reference to “ authorized officer ” as defined by those Regulations as so amended.