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MARITIME TRANSPORT AND OFFSHORE FACILITIES SECURITY ACT 2003 - SECT 113A

Establishing offshore security zones

  (1)   The Secretary may, by written notice given to the offshore facility operator for a security regulated offshore facility, establish one or more offshore security zones within and around the facility. Each offshore security zone must be of a type prescribed under section   113B.

  (2)   The notice must include information about the location and boundaries of the offshore security zones of the kind and in the form prescribed by the regulations.

  (2A)   If:

  (a)   an offshore security plan for an offshore facility operator includes information in accordance with paragraph   100I(2)(b) or subparagraph   100I(2)(c)(ii) or (iii) relating to proposed changes to the offshore security zones within or around an offshore facility; and

  (b)   the Secretary gives the offshore facility operator notice under paragraph   100K(1)(b) approving the plan;

the Secretary is taken to have given the offshore facility operator a notice under subsection   (1) of this section (including information as mentioned in subsection   (2)) establishing, or revoking the establishment of, offshore security zones, as proposed by the offshore facility operator in the information included in the plan.

  (2B)   If:

  (a)   a notice under subsection   100LA(1) requesting the Secretary to vary an offshore security plan for an offshore facility operator includes information in accordance with subsection   100LA(3); and

  (b)   the Secretary gives the offshore facility operator notice under paragraph   100LA(4)(b) approving the variation;

the Secretary is taken to have given the offshore facility operator a notice under subsection   (1) of this section (including information as mentioned in subsection   (2)) establishing, or revoking the establishment of, offshore security zones, as proposed by the offshore facility operator in the information included in the notice requesting the variation.

Note:   For variation and revocation of instruments under subsection   (1), see subsection   33(3) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 .

  (3)   If the Secretary establishes an offshore security zone under subsection   (1), the offshore facility operator must, by writing, notify the establishment to each maritime industry participant (other than the offshore facility operator) who conducts operations within the zone. The notice must include information about the location and boundaries of the zone of the kind and in the form prescribed by the regulations.

  (4)   The purpose of offshore security zones is to subject those zones to additional security requirements.



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