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Navigation Act 1912
427Ministerial orders concerning Uniform Shipping Laws Code and the NSCV
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#### 427 Ministerial orders concerning Uniform Shipping Laws Code and the NSCV
(1) In this section:
> Code means the code known as the Uniform Shipping Laws Code adopted by the Council.
> Council means the conference of Commonwealth, New Zealand, State, Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory Ministers known as the Australian Transport Council.
> NSCV means the National Standard for Commercial Vessels adopted by the Council.
(2) The Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, declare:
(a) that the provisions referred to in the order are provisions, or are the provisions, of the Code as in existence on a specified date; or
(b) that specified provisions of the Code as in existence on a specified date have been varied by the Council on a specified date and that the variations referred to in the order are the variations so made by the Council.
(3) The Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, declare:
(a) that the provisions referred to in the order are provisions, or are the provisions, of the NSCV as in existence on a specified date; or
(b) that specified provisions of the NSCV as in existence on a specified date have been varied by the Council on a specified date and that the variations referred to in the order are the variations so made by the Council.
(4) An order under subsection (2) or (3):
(a) is, for all purposes, prima facie evidence of the matters declared in the order; and
(b) is not a legislative instrument for the purposes of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.