EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Statutory Rules 1990 No. 14
Issue by the Authority of the Minister of State for Land Transport: and shipping support
Subject - Navigation Act 1912
Navigation (Master and Seamen) Regulations (Amendment)
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.
The Navigation (Master and Seamen) Regulations (the Regulations) are made pursuant to that subsection, prescribing matters for the purposes of Part II (Master and Seamen) of the Act.
Regulation 26 of the Regulations specified a flat fee of $42 for the provision of a certificate detailing a seafarer’s sea service, irrespective of the time taken to retrieve the information and irrespective of the period of service involved, which could be six months or thirty years.
Regulation 1 of the amending Regulations repeals and substitutes regulation 26, establishing a fairer fee structure based on cost-recovery principles that relates to the actual work performed in the issuing of a certificate of sea service.
Regulation 2 and the Schedule of the amending Regulations corrects a drafting error in the heading of regulation 8A of the Regulations (‘Maximum age for employment at sea’), by omitting ‘Maximum’ and substituting ‘Minimum’.
| Authority: | Subsection 425(1) of the Navigation Act 1912 |
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