JUNE 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1957.

Regulations as to Ships being provided with Wireless-telegraph Installations.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 24th day of June, 1925.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section two of the Shipping and Seamen Amendment Act, 1924, that the Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, make regulations requiring any class or classes of ships registered in New Zealand, or any class or classes of home-trade ships, whether registered in New Zealand or not, to be provided with wireless-telegraph installations for transmitting and receiving messages; and may by such regulations prescribe the nature of the installations in any case, conditions for their use and maintenance, and fines not exceeding two hundred and fifty pounds for breaches of any regulation:

And whereas it is desirable to make regulations for the purposes aforesaid:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the herein-before-recited power and authority and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations, and doth order that they shall come into force on the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six; and doth hereby further order that on the said first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, all regulations in force prior to that date relating to ships being provided with wireless-telegraph installations shall be revoked.

REGULATIONS.

1. PRELIMINARY.

(1.) THESE regulations may be cited as the Shipping and Seamen Act Wireless Regulations, 1925.

(2.) In these regulations, where not inconsistent with the context,—

“Minister” means the Minister of Marine, and includes any officer or person acting by or under the direction of the Minister:

“Wireless-telegraph Inspector” means any person duly appointed as such by the Minister of Telegraphs:

“Superintendent” means a Superintendent of Mercantile Marine, or any officer acting under his direction or authority:

“Installation” means a wireless-telegraph installation as prescribed by these regulations:

“Normal installation” means an installation which is capable of transmitting, under normal conditions and circumstances, between sunrise and sunset clearly perceptible signals from one ship to another across the sea over a range of at least one hundred nautical miles:

“Emergency installation” means an installation which includes and provides an independent source of energy capable of being put into operation rapidly, and capable of being worked for at least six continuous hours with a minimum range across the sea from one ship to another of eighty nautical miles for ships of Class I, and fifty nautical miles for ships of Classes II and III, as hereinafter defined. The independent source of energy must be capable of being worked for at least six continuous hours independently of the source of propelling-power of the ship, the steam-supply system, and the main electricity-supply system:

“Home-trade major installation” means an installation of a type approved by the Minister, and having a power exceeding 200 watts, and including a suitable receiver with one or more valves, and having its source of energy for transmitting, capable of being worked for at least six consecutive hours, independently of the ship’s main electricity supply system (if any), the steam supply system, and the source of propelling-power of the ship:

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