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3 Purpose of Act

(1) The purpose of this Act is to adopt in the Territory a national approach to the regulation of marine safety in relation to domestic commercial vessels (the domestic commercial vessel national law).

(2)

Accordingly, this Act:

(a) applies the Commonwealth domestic commercial vessel national law as a law of the Territory; and

(b) makes provision to enable the Commonwealth domestic commercial vessel national law and the applied law of the Territory to be administered on a uniform basis by the Commonwealth (and by Territory officials as delegates of the Commonwealth) as if they constituted a single law of the Commonwealth.

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