SPECIAL RECREATIONAL VESSELS ACT 2019 - SECT 17 Sunset provision

SPECIAL RECREATIONAL VESSELS ACT 2019 - SECT 17

    This Act is repealed immediately after the end of 30   June 2025.

This Act establishes a means by which special recreational vessels can opt in to the coastal trading regulatory scheme established by the Coastal Trading (Revitalising Australian Shipping) Act 2012 . This Act does so by:

  (a)   permitting applications for temporary licences authorising special recreational vessels to carry passengers in Australia to be made under this Act, but treated as if they were applications under the Coastal Trading (Revitalising Australian Shipping) Act 2012 ; and

  (b)   permitting applications by owners of special recreational vessels for declarations that the Coastal Trading (Revitalising Australian Shipping) Act 2012 applies in relation to intrastate voyages undertaken by such vessels.

The general rules dealing with the granting of applications, penalties and review of decisions relating to applications made under this Act are found in the Coastal Trading (Revitalising Australian Shipping) Act 2012 . Those rules apply, with some modifications made by this Act, in relation to special recreational vessel temporary licences, applications for such licences and voyages authorised by such licences.

The owner, charterer, master or agent of a special recreational vessel may apply to the Minister for a special recreational vessel temporary licence to engage in coastal trading.

Applications are then considered under the Coastal Trading Act (as applied by Part   3 of this Act).

This Part applies the Coastal Trading Act to special recreational vessels to a limited extent to:

  (a)   allow applications for special recreational vessel temporary licences to be handled under that Act; and

  (b)   allow such licences to be granted and dealt with under that Act; and

  (c)   allow voyages authorised by such licences to be regulated under that Act.

This Part does not have the effect of applying the Coastal Trading Act to special recreational vessels in relation to which there is no special recreational vessel temporary licence, or to such vessels undertaking voyages that are not authorised by a special recreational vessel temporary licence.

In order for the Coastal Trading Act to operate appropriately in relation to this Act, the text of some other provisions of the Coastal Trading Act is notionally changed in relation to:

  (a)   special recreational vessel temporary licences; and

  (b)   applications for such licences; and

  (c)   voyages authorised by such licences.

The modifications of concepts in the Coastal Trading Act also flow through to other legislation as a result of this Part.