6Application

6 Application

(1) For paragraph 162(2)(a) of the Navigation Act, this Order applies to pilots and pilotage of vessels that are in, or in transit to or from waters in:

(a) the Great North East Channel pilotage area;

(b) the inner route pilotage area;

(c) the Torres Strait;

(d) the Whitsundays pilotage area.

(2) For paragraph 162(2)(b) of the Navigation Act, this Order applies to pilots and pilotage of vessels in any waters of the Hydrographers Passage compulsory pilotage area.

Note 1 All the areas mentioned in this section are in the coastal sea of Australia other than the Hydrographers Passage pilotage area that is outside the territorial sea of Australia and within the exclusive economic zone of Australia.

Note 2 The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Regulations 1983 prescribe the Hydrographers Passage, the inner route and the Whitsundays pilotage area to be compulsory pilotage areas for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 — see Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Regulation 1983, r 118.

Note 3 For the kinds of vessels to which this Order applies — see subsection 162(1) and Part 3 of Chapter 1 of the Navigation Act.