Section 1 - Marine Orders - Part 54: Coastal Pilotage, Issue 4 (Order No. 10 of 2006) - Purpose & power

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1 Purpose & power

1.1 Purpose

This Part:

(a) makes provision for the licensing of pilots and the manner in which they carry out their duties;
(b) makes provision for the operations of pilotage providers;
(c) designates Torres Strait as a compulsory pilotage area; and
(d) prescribes the information to be provided with an application for exemption from the requirement to navigate with a pilot.

1.2 Power

1.2.1 Division 1 of Part IIIA of the Navigation Act provides for the regulations to provide for the licensing of pilots and the manner in which they carry out their duties. That Division also provides for the regulations to provide for the operations of pilotage providers.

1.2.2 Section 186H of the Navigation Act provides for the regulations to specify waters that are compulsory pilotage areas for the purposes of Division 2 of Part IIIA.

1.2.3 Subsection 186K(2) provides that an application for an exemption from the requirement to navigate with a pilot must contain the prescribed information.

1.2.4 Subsection 425(1) of the Navigation Act provides for regulations to be made 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.

1.2.5 Subsection 425(1AA) of the Navigation Act provides for the making of orders with respect to matters that can be made by the regulations.