Statutory Rules
1978 No. 221
REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Navigation Act 1912.
Dated this fourteenth day of November 1978.
ZELMAN COWEN
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
(Sgd.) PETER NIXON
Minister of State for Transport
AMENDMENTS OF THE NAVIGATION (SUPPLEMENTARY) REGULATIONS†
Prescribed officer to give notice of detention, &c.
1. Regulation 2 of the Navigation (Supplementary) Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (1) and substituting the following paragraphs:
“ (b) in relation to proceedings instituted in the State of Tasmania against the owner or master of a foreign ship—the person for the time being performing the duties of the office of Assistant Director (Tasmania) in the Department of Transport;
(ba) in relation to proceedings instituted in any other State against the owner or master of a foreign ship—the person for the time being performing the duties of the office of Assistant Director (Surface Operations) in the Regional Office, in that State, of the Department of Transport; or ”;
* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 21 November 1978.
† Statutory Rules 1963 No. 98 as amended by Statutory Rules 1964 No. 38; and 1965 No. 113; 1972, No. 116; and 1974, No. 83; and 1975, Nos.112 and 114; and 1977 No. 191.
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(b) by omiting from paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (I) “Regional Controller for the State of Queensland” and substituting “person for the time, being performing the duties of the office of Assistant Director (Surface Operations) in the Regional Office, in the State of South Australia, of the Department of Transport”; and
(c) by omitting sub-regulation (2).
Prescribed officers to whom certificates are to be delivered
2. Regulation 3 of the Navigation (Supplementary) Regulations is amended by omitting “Regional Controller,” and substituting “Assistant Director (Tasmania) in, or Assistant Director (Surface Operations) in the Regional Office in a State of, the”.
Savings
3. Nothing in these Regulations affects the validity or efficacy of a notice given, or requirement made, under section 192a or 389a of the Navigation Act 1912 before the commencement of these Regulations and, for the purposes of the application of the Navigation (Supplementary) Regulations as amended by these Regulations to such a notice or requirement, a reference to “Regional Controller” in the notice or requirement shall be read as a reference to—
(a) in relation to proceedings instituted in the Northern Territory against the owner or master of a foreign ship—the person for the time being performing the duties of the office of Assistant Director (Surface Operations) in the Regional Office, in the State of South Australia, of the Department of Transport;
(b) in relation to proceedings instituted in the State of Tasmania against the owner or master of a foreign ship— the person for the time being performing the duties of the office of Assistant Director (Tasmania) in the Department of Transport; and
(c) in relation to proceedings instituted in any other State against the owner or master of a foreign, ship—the person for the time being performing the duties of the office of Assistant Director (Surface Operations) in the Regional Office, in that State, of the Department of Transport.
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