9APurpose of Part

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).

(2) Accordingly, this Part—

(a) applies the Commonwealth domestic commercial vessel national law as a law of this State, and

(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.

s 9A: Ins 2012 No 90, Sch 1 [7].