Admiralty Amendment Rules 2016 (No. 1)

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Rules.

Dated 05 May 2016

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

George Brandis QC

Attorney‑General

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Admiralty Rules 1988

1  Name

  These are the Admiralty Amendment Rules 2016 (No. 1).

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of these Rules specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of these Rules as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of these Rules.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of these Rules. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of these Rules.

3  Authority

  These Rules are made under the Admiralty Act 1988.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Admiralty Rules 1988

1  Subrule 3(1)

Insert:

Federal Court Chief Executive Officer means the Chief Executive Officer and Principal Registrar of the Federal Court of Australia.

2  Subrule 14(1)

Omit “Registrar of the Federal Court”, substitute “Federal Court Chief Executive Officer”.