EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Issued by the authority of the Minister for Shipping and Aviation Support
Subject - Navigation Act 1912
Navigation (Passengers) Regulations (Repeal) 1990 No. 160
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 necessary or convenient to be prescribed for the purposes of the Act.
Section 270 of the Act provides that the Regulations may prescribe any matters or things necessary or convenient for regulating the carriage of passengers, including passenger accommodation.
The Navigation (Passengers) Regulations (the Regulations) are made under those sections.
A new Marine Order entitled Marine Orders, Part 14 (Accommodation), made pursuant to the Navigation (Orders) Regulations, came into operation on 1 June 1990.
The Marine Order supersedes the outdated Regulations, reflecting modern methods of ship construction and changes in social organisation on ships.