Navigation (Manning and Accommodation) Regulations (Amendment)

STATUTORY RULES.

1921. No. 241.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912-1920.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Navigation Act 1912-1920, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-second day of December, 1921.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. MASSY GREENE,

for Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

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Amendment of Navigation (Manning and Accommodation) Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1921, No. 84, as amended by Statutory Rules 1921, Nos. 195 and 211.)

1. Regulation 3 of the Navigation (Manning and Accommodation) Regulations 1921 is amended by omitting sub-regulation (4) thereof and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(4) Where an application has been made in accordance with these Regulations for a variation, in respect of any ship, of the scale of deck or engine-room officers prescribed by Schedule I. to the Act, and where the Director of Navigation reports to the Minister that he is satisfied that, by reason of circumstances outside the control of the owner of the ship, the application has not been, or cannot be, considered and determined without delay, then, until such time as it has been considered and determined, the scale of deck or engine-room officers, as the case may be, to be carried by that ship shall be the number and description of officers actually carried by the ship at the time the application was made.”

2. After regulation 3 of the Navigation (Manning and Accommodation) Regulations 1921 the following regulation is inserted:—

Engineers to be carried by certain ships.

“3a. Until otherwise prescribed, the number of engine-room officers to be carried by the undermentioned ships shall, in lieu of the number prescribed by Schedule I. to the Act, be as follows:—

(a) Whilst engaged within the Australian trade limits.

(b) Whilst engaged in the Melbourne-Northern Tasmania trade.

* Subject to the condition that in each case 1 boilermaker is also carried as part of the engine-room staff.

3. Regulation 5 of the Navigation (Manning and Accommodation) Regulations 1921 is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1) thereof the words “sub-regulations (4) and (5) of this regulation” and inserting in their stead “these Regulations.”.

(b) by omitting sub-regulation (5) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(5) Where an application has been made in accordance with these Regulations for a variation, in respect of any ship, of the scale of seamen prescribed by Schedule II. to the Act to be carried as crew, or for the specification by the Minister of the number and description of persons to be carried as crow, and where the Director of Navigation reports to the Minister that he is satisfied that, by reason of circumstances outside the control of the owner of the ship, the application has not been, or cannot be, considered

and determined without delay, then, until such time as it has been considered and determined, the scale of crew to be carried by that ship shall be the number and description of seamen actually carried as crew by the ship at the time the application was made”; and

(c) by inserting, at the end thereof, the following sub-regulations:—

Boys and apprentices.

“(6) Every ship registered in Australia, and every British ship engaged in the coasting trade, of 3,000 tons gross registered tonnage and over (except such ships as are regularly employed in trading to places beyond Australia) shall, until otherwise prescribed, carry as part of her crew one boy or apprentice.

“(7) The provisions of the last preceding sub-regulation shall, as regards the class of ships to which that sub-regulation applies, be deemed to be in substitution for, and to supersede so much of the requirements of Schedule II. to the Act as relates to the carrying of boys and apprentices.”

4. Regulation 5a of the Navigation (Manning and Accommodation) Regulations 1921 is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1) thereof the figure “6” first four times occurring, in the column headed “Trimmers,” and inserting in its stead in each case the figure “9”.

5. After Regulation 5b of the Navigation (Manning and Accommodation) Regulations 1921 the following regulations are inserted:—

Rating of donkeyman greaser.

 “5c. Where in compliance with the requirements of the Act or regulations a steam-ship carries one or more greasers, one of these may be employed as donkeyman and greaser and rated in the agreement as donkeyman-greaser.

Firemen and trimmers to be carried by certain ships.

“5d. Until otherwise prescribed, the number of firemen and trimmers to be carried by the undermentioned ships shall, in lieu of the number of those ratings prescribed by Schedule II. to the Act, be as follows:—

Greasers to be carried by certain ships.

“5e. Until otherwise prescribed, the number of greasers to be carried by the undermentioned ships, whilst trading within the Australian-trade limits, shall, in lieu of the number prescribed by Schedule II. to the Act or by sub-regulation (2) of regulation 3 of these regulations, as the case may be, be as follows:—

Seamen to be carried by a.s. Porpoise.

“5f. Until otherwise prescribed, the number of seamen to be carried by the undermentioned ship as deck hands shall, in lieu of the number prescribed by Schedule II. to the Act, be as follows:—

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