Navigation Act 2012

AMSA may, by legislative instrument, make rules providing as mentioned in subsection (2) in relation to any of the following:

vessels that become or stop being facilities or parts of facilities;

persons on board or near such vessels;

activities that take place on board such vessels.

Rules made under subsection (1) may:

provide for the application, or continued application, of this Act with or without specified modifications in relation to a vessel, person or activity mentioned in paragraph (1)(a), (b) or (c); or

make provision of a transitional, application or saving nature in relation to the transition from:

the regime provided by this Act to a regime provided by a law covered by subsection (3); or

a regime provided by a law covered by subsection (3) to the regime provided by this Act;

This subsection covers the following laws:

the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 and legislative instruments under that Act;

a State PSLA (within the meaning of Part 6.9 of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006) and regulations under a State PSLA;

a Territory PSLA (within the meaning of Part 6.9 of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006) and regulations under a Territory PSLA.

The rules may provide as mentioned in paragraph (2)(a) despite:

the effect of sections 640 and 641 of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 apart from this section; and

anything else in this Act.

The rules may deal with inconsistency between the rules and a law covered by subsection (3), including by providing that the rules prevail over such a law to the extent of any inconsistency.

Paragraphs (2)(a) and (b) do not limit each other.

AMSA may make rules under subsection (1) only with the agreement of the Chief Executive Officer of the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority.

In this section:

a facility within the meaning of Schedule 3 to the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006; or

a vessel in an area in relation to which section 641 of that Act applies that would be a facility within the meaning of that Schedule if the vessel were located at a site in Commonwealth waters for the purposes of paragraph 4(1)(a) or (5A)(a) of that Schedule.