Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00459:section:12
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00459
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 12
Character Range: 11239–12619

12  Regulations giving effect to applied provisions of Convention etc.
 (1) The regulations may prescribe matters that are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for the purpose of carrying out or giving effect to the applied provisions of the Convention and, for or in connection with that purpose, may make provision for and in relation to:
 (a) the conversion of the amounts of money referred to in paragraph 1 of Article V of the Convention into amounts of money expressed in the currency of Australia;
 (b) the kinds of guarantees that are acceptable for the purposes of paragraph 3 of Article V of the Convention;
 (c) the extent to which the right of subrogation provided for in paragraph 5 of Article V of the Convention may be exercised by a person other than a person referred to in that paragraph; and
 (d) the ascertainment of the tonnage of a ship, including the estimation of the tonnage of a ship in circumstances where it is not possible or reasonably practicable to measure its tonnage.
 (2) Subsection (1) shall not be taken as limiting the power of a judge or judges of the Supreme Court of a State or Territory to make rules of court with respect to a matter that is not provided for in the applied provisions of the Convention or in regulations made by virtue of that subsection.

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