EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES NO. 201 OF 1987
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Transport and Communications
Navigation Act 1912 - Navigation (Pig Iron, Coal and Ballast) Regulations (Repeal)
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 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.
Subsection 257(1) of the Act provides that the regulations may make provision for or in relation to the stowing or carriage in ships of cargo.
The Navigation (Pig Iron, Coal and Ballast) Regulations (‘the Regulations’) are made pursuant to those subsections.
Subsection 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 stowing or carriage in ships of cargo. Subregulation 3(1) of the Navigation (Orders) Regulations empowers the Minister to make such orders.
Marine Orders, Part 34 (Cargo and Cargo Handling - Solid Bulk Cargoes), which is expressed to come into operation on 21 September 1987, supersedes the Regulations. It is therefore necessary to repeal the Regulations.
Details of the repealing Regulations are as follows:
Regulation 1 provides that the repealing Regulations come into operation on 21 September 1987.
Regulation 2 repeals the Regulations.
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