Sch 33Marine Orders Part 57, issue 3

Schedule 33 Marine Orders Part 57, issue 3

  This Order is Marine Order 57 (Helicopter operations) 2010.

 1.2.1 Subsection 112(1) provides that the regulations may provide for the carriage of passengers.

 1.2.2 Subsection 112(4) of the Navigation Act provides that the regulations may provide for the carriage on a vessel of cargo and livestock.

 1.2.3 Subsection 112(5) of the Navigation Act provides that the regulations may provide for the loading in vessels and unloading from vessels of cargo and livestock.

 1.2.4 Section 165 of the Navigation Act provides that the regulations may provide for the operations of licensed pilots and licensed pilotage providers including matters relating to pilotage safety management systems and the content and implementation of such systems.

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

 1.2.6 Paragraph 340(1)(a) provides that the regulations may give effect to SOLAS.

 1.2.7 Subsection 342(1) of the Navigation Act provides that AMSA may make an order for any matter for which regulations may provide.

[4] Section 2, definition of AMSA, operator and penal provision

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[5] Section 2, note

• Navigation Act.

• pilot

[6] Sections 3 and 4

  This Order applies to the following vessels:

 (ii)  entering or leaving an Australian port; or

 (iii)  in the internal waters of Australia; or

 (iv)  in the territorial sea of Australia, other than in the course of innocent passage.

[7] Subsection 5.1

5.1 Requirement for safe arrangements

 5.1.1 The master of a vessel may permit the transfer of persons or goods from helicopter to vessel, or from vessel to helicopter, only if the owner or master has provided shipboard arrangements, equipment, training and drills that:

(a) apply to the preparations on a vessel and the vessel/helicopter interface during the transfer operation; and

(b) are necessary and reasonable for emergency evacuation of persons from the vessel; and

(c) are appropriate and reasonable for the normal operations of the vessel; and

(d) are at least as effective as those mentioned in the ICS Guide for operations or activities directly related to the vessel.

Note   The ICS Guide may also provide useful background for the owner and master when considering the safety management system for the vessel.