EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULE NO. 180 OF 1982
ISSUED BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR TRANSPORT AND CONSTRUCTION NAVIGATION (ORDERS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
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 405E(4) of the Act provides that regulations made for the purposes of that section, which relates to the tonnage measurement of ships, may empower the Minister to make orders with respect to any matter on which provisions may be made by regulations under that section.
The Navigation (Orders) Regulations empower the Minister for Transport and Construction to make orders for or in relation to specified matters to give prompt legislative effect to safety and technical requirements in respect of ships, their cargoes and persons on board. Those orders are known as ‘Marine Orders’ and include provisions which would otherwise appear in regulations under the Act.
The amendment to Regulation 3 of the Navigation (Orders) Regulations includes provisions that enable the Minister to make orders in writing for and in relation to the giving effect to the International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships, 1969.