11Condition — providing services to maritime ship stations

11 Condition – providing services to maritime ship stations

A person must not operate a major coast A station to provide a service to a maritime ship station unless the service is: (a) communications to help carry out search and rescue operations conducted by AMSA, or by a body that has similar functions to AMSA; or (b) a weather forecast (whether with or without warnings); or (c) a navigation warning; or (d) a continuous listening watch on international distress frequencies for distress communications, urgency communications and safety communications; or (e) public correspondence.

Note: AMSA and the Bureau of Meteorology provide ships with maritime safety information about hazards and foreseeable dangers to safe navigation through Australia's marine environment. Information about maritime safety information is available, free of charge, from AMSA’s website at www.amsa.gov.au.