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Marine Orders - Part 9: Health-Medical Fitness, Issue 5 (Order No. 22 of 1999)
5Requirement to be medically fit
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5 Requirement to be medically fit
5.1 A person must not perform duties as a seafarer, or be taken into employment to perform duties as a seafarer, on a ship to which section 124 of the Navigation Act applies unless that person is medically fit to perform those duties.
5.2 A person must not perform the duties of a coastal pilot unless that person is medically fit to perform those duties.
5.3 A person must not be employed on a sea-going vessel registered in Australia:
(a) that is not a ship to which section 124 of the Navigation Act applies; and
(b) in respect of which a law of a State or of the Northern Territory does not give effect to the ILO Convention;
unless that person is medically fit for that employment.