1Navigation (Loading and Unloading) Regulations 1941 (Amendment)

STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. .

REGULATION UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912-1935.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Navigation Act 1912-1935.

Dated this twenty-fourth day of July, 1942.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Signature

for the Minister of State for Commerce.

Amendment of the Navigation (Loading and Unloading) Regulations.†

Regulation 51 of the Navigation (Loading and Unloading) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(4.) In any prosecution for a breach of this regulation a certificate in writing by the keeper or person in charge of any weighing instrument stating that the package or article has, by the person purporting to sign it, been weighed and found to be of the weight stated in the certificate, shall, in any court, be prima facie evidence of the facts so stated.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1942.

† Statutory Rules 1941, No. 164.

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

4654.—Price 3d. 20/24.6.1942.