Sch 36Marine Order 60, issue 2

Schedule 36 Marine Order 60, issue 2

  This Order is Marine Order 60 (Floating offshore facilities) 2001.

  This Order provides for the safe operation and navigation of Floating Production, Storage and Offtake Facilities (FPSOs) and Floating Storage Units (FSUs) by setting out requirements, in addition to those set out in other Orders, with which FPSOs and FSUs must comply.

 1B.1 Subsection 98(1) of the Navigation Act provides for regulations to be made for safety certificates for a regulated Australian vessel.

 1B.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 that Act.

 1B.3 Subsection 339(2) of the Navigation Act provides that, without limiting subsection (1), these regulations may be about, among other matters:

(a) the design and construction of vessels; and

(b) the machinery and equipment to be carried on board vessels; and

(c)  the operating, maintaining, checking and testing of that machinery and equipment; and

(d) saving life at sea; and

(e) the maintenance, testing, survey and certification of vessels.

Note   FPSOs and FSUs are vessels — see definition of vessel in subsection 14(1) of the Navigation Act.

 1B.4 Subsection 342(1) of the Navigation Act provides that AMSA may make orders for any matter for which provision must or may be made by the regulations.

[3] Section 2, definitions of AMSA and Chief Marine Surveyor

cargo ship safety construction certificate — see Marine Order 31 (Ship surveys and certification) 2006.

[4] Section 2, definitions of General Manager, IMO, Manager, penal provision, petroleum, Safety Case and SOLAS

petroleum has the same meaning as in section 7 of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006.

safety case, for a vessel, means the safety case for that vessel that was accepted or taken to be accepted by the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) for the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Safety) Regulations 2009.

Note 1   Some terms used in this Order are defined in Marine Order 1 (Administration) 2011 including:

• natural resources

• offshore industry mobile unit.

• marine incident

• safety certificate

[5] Section 3

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