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24Duties of port management bodies and local port managers to ensure safety of marine safety infrastructure operations
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24 Duties of port management bodies and local port managers to ensure safety of marine safety infrastructure operations
S. 24(1) amended by No. 55/2017 s. 7(2).
(1) A port management body or local port manager must, so far as is reasonably practicable, ensure the safety of marine safety infrastructure operations carried out by the port management body or local port manager or supplied to that body or manager.
S. 24(2) amended by No. 55/2017 s. 7(3).
(2) Without limiting subsection (1), a port management body or local port manager contravenes that subsection if the port management body or local port manager fails to do any of the following—
(b) provide or maintain systems related to navigation and marine safety in port waters that are, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe;
(c) control the provision of services related to navigation and marine safety in port waters so that those services are provided in a manner that are, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe;
S. 24(2)(d) amended by No. 55/2017 s. 7(3).
(d) provide, so far as is reasonably practicable, information, instruction, control in matters relating to navigation and marine safety in port waters to enable users of a port under the control of the port management body or local port manager to undertake vessel operations safely;
(e) provide or maintain systems of marine safety work that are, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe;
(f) provide, so far as is reasonably practicable, such information, instruction, training or supervision to marine safety workers as is necessary to enable those workers to perform their marine safety work in a way that is safe.
S. 25 repealed by No. 36/2013 s. 31.
Pt 2.2A (Heading and new s. 25) inserted by No. 10/2016 s. 160.
Part 2.2A—Safety duty of port of Melbourne operator
New s. 25 inserted by No. 10/2016 s. 160.