EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES NO. 96 OF 1987
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Transport
Navigation Act 1912 - Navigation (Load Lines) Regulations (Repeal)
Sub-section 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 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 220(1) of the Act provides that the regulations may make provision for and in relation to giving effect to the International Convention on Load Lines, 1966 (‘the Convention’) and generally may make provision for and in relation to load lines, including the assigning of, and the survey of ships for the purpose of assigning, load lines to ships and the marking of load lines on ships.
The Navigation (Load Lines) Regulations (‘the Regulations’) are made pursuant to those sub-sections.
Sub-section 425(1) of the Act, further provides that the Governor-General may make regulations empowering the Minister to make orders for and in relation to the safe navigation, operation and stability of ships. Sub-regulation 3(1) of the Navigation (Orders) Regulations empowers the Minister to make such orders.
Marine Orders, Part 16 (Load Lines) has been made pursuant to the Navigation (Orders) Regulations.
As Marine Orders, Part 16 supersedes the Regulations, it is necessary to repeal the Regulations. Marine Orders, Part 16 is expressed to come into operation on 1 June 1987.
Details of the repealing Regulations are as follows:
Regulation 1 provides that the repealing Regulations come into operation on 1 June 1987.
Regulation 2 repeals the Regulations.