Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts The Governor may make
regulations prescribing the matters that are necessary or convenient to be
prescribed in respect of emergency procedures and the safety of navigation and
in particular —
(a)
providing for the allocation of crew, special personnel, and passengers to
emergency stations;
(b)
providing for the practice of emergency procedures by crew and special
personnel and for survival craft drills, fire drills, collision drills, and
rocket drills;
(c)
prescribing emergency signals and providing for notices of emergency
procedures to be given to crew, special personnel, and passengers;
(d)
prescribing entries to be made in official logbooks and vessel record books
and providing for lists of crew, special personnel, and passengers to be
maintained;
(e)
regulating the use of automatic pilots;
(f)
regulating the operation and testing of steering gear and drills in relation
to such gear;
(g)
prescribing duties of masters and other persons when a vessel encounters
danger on a voyage and prescribing the information to be provided in messages
as to such danger; and
(h)
prescribing obligations and procedures as to vessels or aircraft in distress.