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Navigable Waters Regulations 1958
2The *Navigable Waters Amendment Regulations 1992* r. 9 is a transitional provision that has no further effect.
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2 The *Navigable Waters Amendment Regulations 1992* r. 9 is a transitional provision that has no further effect.
Defined terms
*[This is a list of terms defined and the provisions where they are defined. The list is not part of the law.]*
**Defined term Provision(s)**
ABF Commissioner 72(2)
ABP standard 45A(2)
Acts 2(1)
appropriate lifejacket 46(2)
appropriate signal 19E(4)
approved electronic visual distress signal 46(2)
APS employee 72(1)
AS 46(2)
AS/NZS 46(2)
Australian Communications and Media Authority 46(2)
CEO 40A, 47(1), 72(1)
channel 40D(1)
Chief of Defence 72(2)
commencement day 45AD(1)
criminal intelligence information 71(1)
departmental consent 40A
designated officer 74(1)
diving 2(1)
Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon 46(2)
examiner 47(1)
fairway 40D(1)
foreign pleasure vessel 45BAA(1)
foreign skipper’s ticket 47(1)
former Regulations 45AD(1)
former vessel 40A
freestyle driving 50A(4)
GNSS-equipped 46(2)
GTE CEO 72(2)
higher qualification 47C(7)
hull identification number 45A(2)
identified obstruction 40E(1)
interfere with 40E(1)
ISO 46(2)
jetty 21
learner 47B(2)
length 2(1)
Level 100 lifejacket 46(2)
Level 150 lifejacket 46(2)
Level 275 lifejacket 46(2)
Level 50 lifejacket 46(2)
Level 50S lifejacket 46(2)
LG CEO 72(2)
Marine Act 2(1)
marine legislation 40C(1)
marine transceiver 46(2)
motor boat 2(1)
navigable waters 2(1)
non-registrable vessel 46(2)
obstruction 40A, 40C(2)
obstruction notice 40A, 40L(1)
occupier 2(1)
open area 50B(1)
owner 45A(2)
paddle craft 46(2)
para-sailing 46(2)
personal locator beacon 46(2)
person responsible 40A, 45(1)
premises 2(1)
prescribed offence 47GA(1)
present offence 47GA(2)
proposed departure date 45BAA(1)
protected waters 2(1)
public jetty 2(1)
reasonable costs and expenses 40A
recreational skipper’s ticket 47(1)
registered interstate pleasure vessel 45A(2)
registered owner 40A
registered vessel 45A(2)
registrable vessel 2(1)
relevant owner 40I
relevant person 40E(1)
remedy notice 40A, 40F(1)
remove 2(1)
RST vessel 47(1)
sailboard 46(2)
sailboard riding 46(2)
section 47GA(1)
SOLAS lifejacket 46(2)
speed boat 2(1)
surfing 50A(4)
tender 2(1)
trick water ski-ing 46(2)
vessel 21
water skier 46(2)
water ski-ing 46(2)
wave jumping 50A(4)
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