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Navigation Act 1912
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#### 405B Interpretation
(1) In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears:
> Australian tonnage measurement certificate means a certificate issued under subparagraph 405F(a)(ii) or paragraph 405F(b).
> International Tonnage Certificate (1969) means a certificate in the form of the International Tonnage Certificate (1969) set out in Annex II to the Tonnage Measurement Convention.
> international voyage means a voyage:
(a) from a port in Australia to a port outside Australia;
(b) to a port in Australia from a port outside Australia;
(c) from a port in a Tonnage Measurement Convention country to a port outside that country; or
(d) to a port in a Tonnage Measurement Convention country from a port outside that country.
> ship to which the Tonnage Measurement Convention applies means a ship to which, in accordance with Articles 3 and 4 of the Tonnage Measurement Convention, that Convention applies.
> Tonnage Measurement Convention means the International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships, 1969 (a copy of the English text of the articles of which, and of the annexes to which, is set forth in Schedule 8), as affected by any amendment, other than an amendment not accepted by Australia, made under Article 18 of the Convention.
> Tonnage Measurement Convention certificate means an International Tonnage Certificate (1969) issued under subparagraph 405F(a)(i).
> Tonnage Measurement Convention country means a country or territory specified in a notice under section 405C.
(2) For the purpose of determining whether a voyage is an international voyage:
(a) account shall not be taken of a deviation by a ship from an intended voyage if the deviation is due only to stress of weather or any other circumstance that neither the master nor the owner of the ship could have prevented or forestalled; and
(b) a territory for which the United Nations are the administering authority, or for the international relations of which Australia or any other country is responsible, shall be deemed to be a separate country.
(3) For the purposes of this Part, an unregistered ship flying the flag of a country shall be deemed to be registered in that country.
(4) Where a ship in the course of construction, or the construction of which has been completed, has not been registered and is not flying the flag of a country, but is intended to be registered in a particular country, the ship shall, for the purposes of this Part, be deemed to be registered in that country.