4Application for licence

Application for licence.

4.—(1.) An application for—

(a) the grant of a licence under section 13 of the Act; or

(b) the transfer, under sub-section (7.) of section 13 of the Act, of a licence in respect of a ship,

shall be deemed not to have been duly made to a licensing authority unless it is accompanied by the fee payable in respect of the grant of the licence or the transfer of the licence, as the case may be.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1970

20352/69—Price 20c 10/17.3.1970

(2.) An application for the grant of a licence under paragraph (a) or (b) of sub-section (4.) of section 13 of the Act to or in respect of a diver or trial diver shall be deemed not to have been duly made to a licensing authority unless the applicant furnishes to the licensing authority a certificate signed, not earlier than thirty days before the date of application, by a medical practitioner certifying that the diver or trial diver, as the case may be, is not, in the opinion of the medical practitioner, suffering from a disease, complaint or infirmity likely to render the occupation of diving specially dangerous to the diver or trial diver.

(3.) In the last preceding regulation, “medical practitioner” means a person who is registered or licensed as a medical practitioner under a law of a State or Territory that provides for the registration or licensing of medical practitioners.