Marine Order 47 (Offshore industry units) 2019

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

section 98 which provides that the regulations may provide for safety certificates;

section 125 which provides that the regulations may make provision in relation to musters, drills, checks of machinery and equipment and other tests;

section 314 which provides that the regulations may provide for matters relating to certificates;

subsection 339(2) which provides that the regulations may provide for the matters mentioned in that provision including:

the design and construction of vessels;

machinery and equipment to be carried on board;

the operating, maintaining, checking and testing of machinery and equipment;

the stability of vessels;

saving of life at sea;

prevention, detection and extinguishment of fires;

the maintenance, testing, survey and certification of vessels.

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 matters that can be provided for by regulation.