EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

 

Select Legislative Instrument 2006 No. 227

 

Issued under the authority of the Minister for Transport and Regional Services

 

Lighthouses Act 1911

 

Lighthouses Amendment Regulations 2006 (No. 1)

 

Section 20 of the Lighthouses Act 1911 (the Act) provides, in part, that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing all matters which by the Act are required or permitted to be prescribed or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act. 

 

The Regulations amended the Lighthouses Regulations to update the prescribed person to whom a report should be made when damage is made to a marine navigational aid.

 

The Regulations also renamed the Lighthouses Regulations as the Lighthouses Regulations 1990.

 

Details of the Regulations are set out in the Attachment.

 

The Act specifies no conditions that need to be met before the power to make the Regulations may be exercised.

 

The Regulations are a legislative instrument for the purposes of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.  

 

No formal consultation was undertaken in relation to these amendments as they are of a minor or machinery nature and do not substantially alter existing arrangements.

 

The Regulations commenced on the day after registration on the Federal Registrar of Legislative Instruments.

 

 

ATTACHMENT

 

DETAILS OF THE LIGHTHOUSES AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 2006 (NO. 1)

 

Regulation 1 -- Name of Regulations

 

Regulation 1 is a formal provision specifying the name of the Regulations.

 

Regulation 2 -- Commencement

 

Regulation 2 provides that the Regulations commence on the day after registration on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.

 

Regulation 3 -- Amendment of Navigation (Collisions) Regulations 1982

 

Regulation 3 provides that Schedule 1 amends the Lighthouses Regulations.

 

SCHEDULE 1 -- AMENDMENT

 

Item [1] -- This item renames the Regulations as the Lighthouses Regulations 1990.

 

Item [2] -- This item replaces the reference to "an office in the Department of Manager, Co-ordination and Transport for a region" in regulation 4 with "Maintenance Operations Manager in the Authority" to reflect the Australian Maritime Safety Authority's current organisational structure.