Marine Order 32 (Cargo handling equipment) 2016

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

subsection 112(5) which provides that the regulations may provide for the loading, stowing or carriage of cargo in vessels, the unloading of cargo from vessels, and the giving of notices about those matters;

paragraph 125(2)(c) which provides that the regulations may provide for checks and tests of machinery and equipment;

paragraph 339(2)(b) which provides that the regulations may provide for machinery and equipment to be carried on board vessels;

paragraph 339(2)(c) which provides that the regulations may provide for the operating, maintaining, checking and testing of the machinery and equipment;

subsection 341(1) which provides that the regulations may provide for the imposition of penalties for the contravention of provisions of the regulations including the imposition of civil penalties.

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