15Principle of shared responsibility

15 Principle of shared responsibility (1) Marine safety is the shared responsibility of— (a) owners of vessels; and (b) marine safety workers; and (c) persons involved in recreational boating activities; and (d) pilots and pilotage services providers; and S. 15(1)(e) amended by No. 10/2016 s. 159. (e) port management bodies, the port of Melbourne operator, local port managers and waterway managers; and (f) other persons who— (i) design, commission, construct, manufacture, supply, install, maintain, repair or modify marine safety infrastructure, vessels or marine safety equipment; and (ii) supply marine safety infrastructure operations to port management bodies; and S. 15(1)(f)(iii) repealed by No. 36/2013 s. 29. S. 15(1)(g) amended by No. 34/2023 s. 127(Sch. 1 item 7.5). (g) Safe Transport Victoria; and (h) the public. (2) The level and nature of responsibility that a person referred to in subsection (1), or falling within a class of person referred to in subsection (1), has for marine safety is dependent on the nature of the risk to marine safety that the person creates from the carrying out of an activity (or the making of a decision) and the capacity that person has to control, eliminate or mitigate that risk.