1Interpretation

1 Interpretation

1.1 In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears, the following definitions apply:

AMSA means the Australian Maritime Safety Authority;

applicant means a person who applies for a Certificate of Medical Fitness under 7.1;

Certificate of Medical Fitness means a Certificate of Medical Fitness issued in accordance with this Part;

coastal pilot means a person who is performing, or intends to perform, the duties of a licensed pilot for the purposes of Part VIIA of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 or Part IIIA of the Navigation Act 1912;

holder, in relation to a certificate, means the person identified as holder by that certificate;

Manager means the Manager, Ship Operations and Qualifications, in AMSA, or in respect of any particular function, a suitably qualified person appointed by the Manager, Ship Operations and Qualifications, to carry out that function;

seafarer means a person serving or intending to serve on a ship to which Part II of the Navigation Act applies and includes a master, officer or seaman but does not include a pilot, a person who is not a member of the crew of the ship, a supernumerary, or special personnel as defined in section 283 of the Navigation Act;

sea-going vessel, for the purposes of the ILO Convention, means:

(a) a trading ship on an overseas or interstate voyage; or
(b) a trading ship of 500 tons gross tonnage or more on a voyage:
  (i) that is not an overseas or interstate voyage; and
  (ii) in the course of which it is not at all times capable, at normal operating speed, of returning to its port of departure in 6 hours or less or reaching its intended next port of call in 6 hours or less;

seaman includes a person engaged on a ship in a trainee capacity, other than a sail trainee as defined in Marine Orders, Part 52;

STCW Code means the Code referred to in the STCW Convention;

STCW Convention means the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers, 1978, as amended;

the ILO Convention means the Medical Examination (Seafarers) Convention 1946 adopted by the General Conference of the International Labour Organization on 29 June 1946; and

valid, in relation to a certificate, means a certificate that is current and that has not been cancelled.

1.2 In this Part:

(a) headings and sub-headings are part of the Part;
(b) each Appendix is part of the Part;
(c) a note included in the text and printed in italics is not part of the Part.