EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Issued by Authority of the Minister for Transport and Regional Services
Subject: Maritime Transport Security Amendment Act 2005
Subsection 2(1) of the Maritime Transport Security Amendment Act 2005 (the Act) provides that each provision of the Act commences or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with the times set out in column 2 of the table. Items 3 to 14 of
Schedule 1 to the Act commence on either a single day to be fixed by Proclamation or, if any of those provisions do not commence within the period of 6 months beginning on the day on which the Act received Royal Assent, they commence on the first day after the end of that period. The Act received Royal Assent on 26 June 2005.
The purpose of the proposed Proclamation is to fix 30 September as the day on which items 3 to 14 of Schedule 1 to the Act commence.
The Act amended the Maritime Transport Security Act 2003 (“the original Act”) by:
- extending coverage of the original Act to offshore oil and gas facilities located within the territorial sea, in Australia’s exclusive economic zone and on the continental shelf; and
- ensuring that all regulated offshore oil and gas facility operators and other prescribed offshore industry participants develop, and comply with, an offshore security plan based on a security assessment of each regulated facility.
This Proclamation is a legislative instrument for the purpose of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.
This Proclamation commenced on the day after it was registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.
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