Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PROTECTION OF THE SEA (PREVENTION OF POLLUTION FROM SHIPS) ACT 1983 - SECT 26EAA

                   For the purposes of this Part:

                     (a)  overseas voyage has the same meaning as it has in the Navigation Act 1912 except that a voyage of an Australian fishing vessel (being a ship that is regularly engaged in making voyages from a port or ports in Queensland) beginning at a port in that State and ending at the same port or another port in that State is not to be taken to be an overseas voyage merely because, as an incidental part of its fishing operations on that voyage, the ship calls at a port or ports in Papua New Guinea; and

                     (b)  Australian fishing vessel has the same meaning as in the Navigation Act 1912 .