EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1982 NO. 46
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Transport
NAVIGATION (TONNAGE MEASUREMENT) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
These amendments of the Navigation (Tonnage Measurement) Regulations make some improvements to the present provisions. The Regulations provide that, in ascertaining the register tonnage of a ship, no deduction in relation to crew accommodation spaces may be made unless the space complies in all respects with the relevant provisions of the Navigation (Crew Accommodation) Regulations. However, where a naval ship or a ship that trades only within one State is being measured for tonnage, that ship should not be required to comply with the provisions of the latter Regulations. The existing provision is therefore being restricted to ships to which the Navigation (Crew Accommodation) Regulations apply; in respect of other ships, no deduction will be made unless the space complies in all respects with such relevant requirements as apply by force of law to the ship and are certified by the Minister for Transport to be the equivalent to the provisions in those Regulations, taking into account the type of ship involved and the trade in which it is involved.
The amendments provide, in relation to the fees payable for remeasurement of a ship for special tonnage, not involving underdeck tonnage, for a Panama or Suez Canal tonnage certificate, that five unclear categories of remeasurement be clarified and reduced to four.
The amendments also omit from the prescribed certificate of survey for tonnage reference to a record of the number of seamen and apprentices for whom accommodation in a ship is certified, as there is no provision for this information in the form of the tonnage certificate.