Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NAVIGATION ACT 2012 - SECT 12

    A provision of this Act that gives effect to a provision of:

  (a)   the Safety Convention; or

  (b)   the Prevention of Pollution Convention; or

  (c)   the Prevention of Collisions Convention (in relation to an area other than the high seas); or

  (ca)   the Maritime Labour Convention;

does not apply in relation to a domestic commercial vessel, or a recreational vessel that has Australian nationality, when the vessel is in an area if:

  (d)   a provision of the Marine Safety (Domestic Commercial Vessel) National Law gives effect to that provision of the Convention in relation to that vessel when it is in that area; or

  (e)   if paragraph   (d) does not apply--a provision of a law of a State or the Northern Territory gives effect to that provision of the Convention in relation to that vessel when it is in that area.