Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NAVIGATION ACT 1912 - SECT 294

             (1)  In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires:

"common understanding concerning Article" s 1 3 and 14 of the Salvage Convention means the common understanding:

                     (a)  that is referred to in section 315; and

                     (b)  the terms of which are set out in Part B of Schedule 9.

"damage to the environment" means substantial physical damage to human health or to marine life or resources in coastal or inland waters or areas adjacent thereto, caused by pollution, contamination, fire, explosion or similar major incidents.

"historic wreck" means:

                     (a)  a historic shipwreck within the meaning of the Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976 ; or

                     (b)  a historic relic within the meaning of that Act.

"natural resources" means the mineral and non-living resources of the seabed and its subsoil.

"Organization" means the International Maritime Organization.

"payment" means any reward, remuneration or compensation due under Division 3.

"property" means any property not permanently and intentionally attached to the shoreline and includes freight at risk.

"receiver" means the Authority or a person appointed by the Authority to be a receiver of wreck in any assigned district.

"Salvage Convention" means the International Convention on Salvage, 1989, as set out in Part A of Schedule 9 to this Act.

"salvage operation" means any act or activity undertaken to assist a vessel or any other property in danger in navigable waters or in any other waters whatsoever.

"Secretary-General" means the Secretary-General of the Organization.

"tidal water" means a part of the sea, or a part of a river within the ebb and flow of the tide at ordinary spring tides, but does not include a harbour.

"vessel" means any ship or craft, or any structure capable of navigation.

"wreck" includes jetsam, flotsam, lagan, and derelict found in or on the shores of the sea or any tidal water, and any articles or goods of whatever kind which belonged to or came from any ship wrecked, stranded, or in distress, or any portion of the hull machinery or equipment of any such ship.

             (2)  A reference in this Part to Division 3 includes a reference to the provision having the force of law under section 315.