Marine Order 31 (SOLAS and non-SOLAS certification) 2019

The following provisions of the Navigation Act provide for this Marine Order to be made:

subsection 98(1) which provides that the regulations may provide for safety certificates;

subsection 98(2) which provides that, without limiting subsection 98(1), the regulations may give effect to SOLAS;

paragraph 98(3)(a) which provides that the regulations may provide that vessels in a particular class must have safety certificates of specified kinds, either generally or in specified circumstances, including certificates relating to survey;

section 314 which provides for regulations to be made prescribing matters for the application for certificates and, among other things, the criteria for issue, variation and revocation of certificates, the conditions which certificates are subject to and the time certificates cease to be in force;

subparagraph 339(2) which provides for regulations to be made relating to specified matters for the safe operation of vessels;

paragraph 340(1)(a) which provides that the regulations may give effect to SOLAS.

Subsection 339(1) of the Navigation Act provides for regulations to be made prescribing matters required or permitted to be prescribed or that are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.

Subsection 342(1) of the Navigation Act provides that AMSA may make a Marine Order about anything that must or may be made by the regulations.