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NAVIGATION (TONNAGE MEASUREMENT) REGULATIONS (REPEAL) 1994 NO. 306

STATUTORY RULES 1994 No. 306

Issued by the authority of the Minister for Transport

Navigation Act 1912

Navigation (Tonnage Measurement) 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 required or permitted to be prescribed or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.

On 19 July 1982 the International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships, 1969 came into force in Australia. That Convention made provision for transitional arrangements whereby the previous provisions regulating the measurement of existing ships were to remain in force for a period of 12 years.

The Navigation (Tonnage Measurement) Regulations, made pursuant to subsection 425(1), prescribe matters for the purpose of Part XA (Tonnage Measurement of Ships) of the Act relating to the measurement of existing ships during the transition period provided in the Convention.

The 12 year transition period expired on 18 July 1994. Tonnage measurement of ships must now be undertaken in accordance with the provisions of Marine Orders Part 19, Tonnage Measurement, Issue 3, made pursuant to section 425(1AA) of the Act.

The regulations repeal the Navigation (Tonnage Measurement) Regulations.