Marine Safety Act 1998
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9B Definitions
9B Definitions
(1) In this Part—
applied provisions means the Commonwealth domestic commercial vessel national law that applies as a law of this State because of section 9C.
Commonwealth administrative laws means the following Commonwealth Acts, regulations or other legislative instruments—
(a) the Administrative Review Tribunal Act 2024, excluding Part 7,
(b) the Freedom of Information Act 1982,
(c) the Ombudsman Act 1976,
(d) the Privacy Act 1988,
(e) the regulations and other legislative instruments in force under any of those Acts.
Commonwealth domestic commercial vessel national law means the provisions of the following Acts, regulations or other legislative instruments—
(a) the Marine Safety (Domestic Commercial Vessel) National Law of the Commonwealth (being the provisions applying as a law of the Commonwealth because of section 4 of the Marine Safety (Domestic Commercial Vessel) National Law Act 2012 of the Commonwealth),
(b) the regulations and other legislative instruments in force under that Law,
(c) any other provision of a Commonwealth Act (or of a regulation or other legislative instrument in force under a Commonwealth Act) that is of a savings or transitional nature consequent on the enactment or amendment of that Law.
(2) Terms used in this Part and also in the Commonwealth domestic commercial vessel national law have the same meanings in this Part as they have in that law.
(3) In this Part, a reference to a Commonwealth Act includes a reference to—
(a) that Commonwealth Act, as amended and in force for the time being, and
(b) an Act enacted in substitution for that Act and, if it is amended, as amended and in force for the time being.
s 9B: Ins 2012 No 90, Sch 1 [7]. Am 2025 No 38, Sch 1.9[1].