Marine Orders Part 9: Health Medical Fitness, Issue 5 Amendment (Order No. 12 of 2006) (Cth)
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Table of Contents
1 Purpose & power
2 Amendment of principal provisions
Previous issues
Issue 1, Order No 6 of 1983
Issue 2, Order No 5 of 1985
Issue 3, Order No 5 of 1988
Issue 4, Order No 1 of 1993
—Amended by Order No 4 of 1993
Issue 5, Order No 22 of 1999
—Amended by Order No 5 of 2001
1 Purpose & power
1.1 Purpose
This Marine Order makes amendments to Issue 5 of Marine Orders, Part 9 (Health—Medical Fitness), which, for the purposes of section 186C of the Navigation Act 1912, makes provision for and in relation to the medical fitness standards for seafarers and licensed pilots. This amendment extends the coverage of Part 9 to include persons performing the duties of a licensed pilot for the purposes of Part IIIA of the Navigation Act 1912. The Part already covers persons performing the duties of a licensed pilot for the purposes of Part VIIA of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975.
1.2 Power
1.2.1 Section 186C of the Navigation Act 1912 provides for regulations to specify conditions, including conditions as to health, to be satisfied by a person in order to be a licensed pilot under the Act.
1.2.2 Subsection 425(1) of the Navigation Act 1912 provides for regulations to be made prescribing matters required or permitted to be prescribed or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.
1.2.3 Subsection 425(1AA) of the Navigation Act 1912 provides that AMSA may make orders with respect to any matter for or in relation to which provision may be made by regulation.
2 Amendment of principal provisions
2.1 In Provision 1.1, the definition of coastal pilot is amended by adding at the end of the definition “or Part IIIA of the Navigation Act 1912”.
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