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96 Gibbs Road, Nowergup. ETHAN REDSHAW, Acting Executive Director Local Government, Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries. MARINE/MARITIME MA401 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MARINE ACT 1982 DECLARATION AND EXEMPTION OF EMERGENCY VESSELS Flood Rescue Vessels (WAMA-2024-206598) Department of Transport, Fremantle WA, 23 February 2024. I, Graeme Meinema, Director Waterways Safety Management, Department of Transport and delegate of the chief executive officer—

1. Acting pursuant to regulation 19H of the Navigable Water Regulations 1958 (‘the Regulations’), hereby declare a vessel listed in Schedule 1 to be an emergency vessel, with the specifications in Schedule 2;
2. Acting pursuant to section 115A of the Western Australian Marine Act 1982 (‘the Act’), hereby exempt a vessel listed in Schedule 1 from notices made under the following sections of the Act (‘the speed exemption’), subject to the conditions in Schedule 3— i. Section 66 (Closure of waters); and ii. Section 67 (Limiting speed of vessels). This instrument is to be known as WAMA-2024-206598 and revokes instrument WAMA-2023-206267 signed on 18 September 2023. ———— Schedule 1—Vessels declared as Emergency Vessels Vessel Name Location Unique Identifier DW295 Augusta 9235 Citybel Belmont 8917 Tinkabel Belmont 8918 C801 Carnarvon 8500 C805 Derby 8504 DQ201 Fitzroy Crossing 8915 Kalbarri SES River Rescue Kalbarri 8643 DB209 Nannup 8913 C803 Pt Hedland 8502 BK174 Walpole 9236 BL264 Canning 9195 FB01 Kununurra 458238

23 February 2024 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 269 Vessel Name Location Unique Identifier FB02 Murray 458237 FB03 Australind 459491 FB04 Busselton 459594 FB05 Canning 459586 FB06 Collie 459584 FB07 Mandurah 460029 FB08 O’Connor 460064 FB09 Walpole 460351 FB10 Belmont 462790 FB11 Carnarvon 462791 FB12 Fitzroy Crossing 462792 ———— Schedule 2—Declaration Specifications Pursuant to regulation 19H(2) of the Regulations—

1. A vessel listed in Schedule 1 is taken to be operating as an emergency vessel when the vessel is being deployed in relation to an identified emergency (sea search and rescue or other situations where serious injury and/or loss of life can either be reasonably expected or has been reported to the vessel).
2. The following provisions of the Regulations do not apply to a vessel listed in Schedule 1, in any circumstances, while the vessel is operating as an emergency vessel— a. Regulation 19A (Speed limit in Swan and Canning Rivers); and b. Regulation 48 (Limitation of speed).
3. A vessel listed in Schedule 1 is permitted to use a lamp displaying intermittent blue flashes at any time the vessel is operating as an emergency vessel. ———— Schedule 3—Speed Exemption Conditions Pursuant to section 115A of the Act, the speed exemption applies only to vessels listed in Schedule 1 if the following conditions are met—