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Navigation Act 1912
283ERegulations with respect to off‑shore industry mobile units
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#### 283E Regulations with respect to off‑shore industry mobile units
(1) The regulations may make provision:
(a) for or in relation to giving effect to resolutions of the International Maritime Organization with respect to off‑shore industry mobile units or classes of off‑shore industry mobile units;
(b) in relation to off‑shore industry mobile units with respect to any matter with respect to which provision is made by this Act or may be made by regulations made otherwise than by virtue of this section; and
(c) for or in relation to any of the following matters, namely:
(i) the inspection and survey of off‑shore industry mobile units, and the issue of survey certificates in respect of such units;
(ii) the construction, hull, equipment and machinery of off‑shore industry mobile units;
(iii) the stability of off‑shore industry mobile units;
(iv) accommodation on off‑shore industry mobile units;
(v) safety in relation to off‑shore industry mobile units, including life‑saving equipment and appliances to be carried on such units;
(vi) the prevention, detection and extinction of fire on off‑shore industry mobile units;
(vii) the prevention of collisions involving off‑shore industry mobile units;
(viii) the navigation (including towing) of off‑shore industry mobile units;
(ix) the equipping of off‑shore industry mobile units with radio installations and operation, maintenance and use on off‑shore industry mobile units of radio installations;
(x) the manning of off‑shore industry mobile units;
(xi) the securing to the seabed of off‑shore industry mobile units engaged in drilling, laying pipelines or other operations;
(xii) the providing of off‑shore industry vessels for use in association with off‑shore industry mobile units;
(xiii) the transfer of persons and goods to or from off‑shore industry mobile units, including the provision, maintenance and use of cranes and other lifting devices and equipment and helicopter landing facilities;
(xiv) the prevention of pollution, or other damage to the environment, by off‑shore industry mobile units;
(xv) the carrying of an operating manual by off‑shore industry mobile units;
(xvi) the carriage of dangerous goods on off‑shore industry mobile units; and
(xvii) the granting of exemptions, whether conditionally or unconditionally, to off‑shore industry mobile units from any requirement of this Act.
(2) The regulations may provide that a specified provision of this Act does not apply, or applies with prescribed modifications, in relation to off‑shore industry mobile units or a class of off‑shore industry mobile units.
(5) Section 2 does not have effect in relation to regulations made by virtue of this section, or in relation to orders made by virtue of such regulations, that make provision for or in relation to the providing of off‑shore industry vessels for use in association with off‑shore industry mobile units.