EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1986 NO. 267
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Transport
Subject: Shipping Registration Act 1981 –
Shipping Registration Regulations (Amendment)
Section 83 of the Shipping Registration Act 1981 (‘the Act’) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing all matters required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act. The Shipping Registration Regulations (‘the Regulations’) are made pursuant to that section.
The Regulations have been amended to reflect recent changes in the Act, to correct a drafting error in the Regulations and to adjust fees payable for services by the Registrar of Ships in accordance with Government policy of cost recovery in relation to such services.
Details of the amending regulations are as follows:
Regulation 1 provides that the amending regulations shall come into operation on 1 October 1986.
Regulation 2 cites the Principal Regulations.
Regulation 3 replaces regulation 10 of the Regulations with a provision reflecting amendment of section 13 of the Act by the Shipping Registration Amendment Act 1984 (No. 16 of 1984) which provided for ships of less than 24 metres in tonnage length to be exempt from registration.
Regulation 4 amends paragraph 14(3)(b) of the Regulations to correct a drafting error occuring in Statutory Rules 1985 No. 262 Shipping Registration Regulations (Amendment), which incorrectly cited the paragraph subject to amendment.
Regulation 5 inserts a new sub-regulation 30(2) to provide that the meaning of ‘address’ in paragraph 30(1)(c) of the Regulations has the same meaning as in section 64 of the Act. Regulation 30 prescribes matters for the purposes of section 64.
Regulation 6 increases the fees specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations by 18 per cent.