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Marine Safety Act 1998
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#### 9A Purpose of Part
9A Purpose of Part
> > (1) The purpose of this Part is to adopt in this State a national approach to the regulation of marine safety in relation to domestic commercial vessels (the domestic commercial vessel national law).
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> > (2) Accordingly, this Part—
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> > > (a) applies the Commonwealth domestic commercial vessel national law as a law of this State, and
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> > > (b) makes provision to enable the Commonwealth domestic commercial vessel national law and the applied law of this State to be administered on a uniform basis by the Commonwealth (and by State officials as delegates of the Commonwealth) as if they constituted a single law of the Commonwealth.
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> **s 9A:** Ins 2012 No 90, Sch 1 \[7\].