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(1) The following provisions of the Navigation Act provide for this Order to be made:

(a) subsection 187(1) which provides that the regulations may prescribe matters for reports of dangers to navigation;

(b) paragraph 309(2)(a) which provides that the regulations may prescribe the entries to be made in an official logbook and when they must be made;

(c) paragraph 339(2)(b) which provides that the regulations may provide for machinery and equipment to be carried on board vessels including for sending or receiving distress, urgency and other signals, radio installations, radio navigational aids and communication equipment, and compasses;

(d) paragraph 339(2)(c) which provides that the regulations may provide for the operation, maintenance, checking and testing of this machinery and equipment;

(e) paragraph 339(2)(g) which provides that the regulations may provide for the equipment to be carried on vessels and measures to be carried out for the saving of life at sea;

(f) paragraph 339(2)(l) which provides that the regulations may provide for logbooks;

(g) paragraph 339(2)(m) which provides that the regulations may provide for records for compliance with the Act;

(h) paragraph 340(1)(a) which provides that the regulations may give effect to SOLAS;

(i) subsection 341(1) which provides that the regulations may provide for the imposition of penalties for a contravention of a provision of the regulations.

(2) Subsection 339(1) of the Navigation Act provides for regulations to be made prescribing matters required or permitted to be prescribed, or that are necessary or convenient to be prescribed, for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.

(3) Subsection 342(1) of the Navigation Act provides that AMSA may make a Marine Order about matters that can be provided for by regulation.