Navigation Act 2012

This Chapter deals with the safety of regulated Australian vessels and foreign vessels.

Part 2 deals with safety certificates for regulated Australian vessels and documentation for foreign vessels. It provides for offences and civil penalties that apply in relation to:

taking regulated Australian vessels to sea without safety certificates; and

taking foreign vessels to sea without appropriate documents.

Part 3 deals with offences and civil penalties for taking to sea an unseaworthy regulated Australian vessel or foreign vessel.

Part 4 deals with passenger and cargo operations of regulated Australian vessels and foreign vessels, including in relation to:

overloading (Division 3); and

loading (Subdivision A of Division 4); and

dangerous goods (Subdivision B of Division 4).

Part 5 deals with the carrying out of musters and drills on regulated Australian vessels, foreign vessels, domestic commercial vessels and recreational vessels.