Commonwealth Numbered Acts

NAVIGATION AMENDMENT ACT 1979 No. 98, 1979 - SECT 2

2. (1) Sections 1, 2 and 3, sub-section 4 (1), section 6, sub-sections 10 (2)
and 11 (2), sections 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25, sub-section 26 (2),
sections 27, 28, 29 and 30, sub-section 32 (1), sections 43 and 45,
sub-sections 49 (1) and 51 (1), sections 54, 56, 59, 60 and 62, sub-section 65
(3), sections 69 and 71, sub-sections 72 (2) and 73 (2), sections 74, 76, 77,
78 and 79, sub-sections 82 (2) and 83 (3), sections 85 and 86, sub-section 87
(2), section 88, sub-section 89 (1), sections 90, 91, 98, 100, 102 and 103,
sub-sections 104 (1) and (2) and sections 105, 106, 107, 108 and 109 shall
come into operation on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.*1*

(2) Section 63, sub-sections 81 (2) and 83 (2) and section 99 of this Act
shall be deemed to have come into operation immediately after the commencement
of sections 5, 6, 7 and 9 of the Navigation Act 1972.

(3) Sections 57, 58, 61 and 64 of this Act shall be deemed to have come into
operation on the day on which the Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976 came into
operation but the amendments made by sections 58 and 61 of this Act do not
apply in relation to a wreck situated in waters (including waters above the
continental shelf of Australia) adjacent to the coast of a State until the
Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976 applies in relation to those waters.

(4) Sub-sections 32 (2), 38 (1) and 49 (2) and sections 50 and 94 shall come
into operation on a date to be fixed by Proclamation for the purposes of this
sub-section, being a date not earlier than the date on which the Convention on
the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972, enters
into force for Australia.

(5) Section 16, sub-sections 65 (1) and (2), section 96 and sub-sections 104
(3), (4) and (5) shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by
Proclamation for the purposes of this sub-section, being a date not earlier
than 6 months after the ratification by Australia of the Convention referred
to in section 104.

(6) Section 31, sub-section 32 (3), sections 33, 34, 35, 37, 39, 40, 41, 42,
44, 46 and 47, sub-section 51 (2) and sections 93 and 110 shall come into
operation on such date as is, or such respective dates as are, fixed by
Proclamation for the purposes of this sub-section, being a date or dates, as
the case may be, not earlier than the date on which the International
Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974, enters into force for
Australia.

(7) Sub-sections 32 (4) and 38 (2) and sections 48 and 95 shall come into
operation on such date as is fixed by Proclamation for the purposes of this
sub-section, being a date not earlier than the date on which the International
Convention for Safe Containers enters into force for Australia.

(8) Section 80, sub-sections 81 (1), 82 (1) and 83 (1) and sections 84, 97 and
111 shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by Proclamation, being a
date not earlier than the date on which the International Convention on
Tonnage Measurement of Ships, 1969, enters into force for Australia.

(9) Sub-section 73 (1) of this Act shall come into operation on the day on
which the Crimes at Sea Act 1979 comes into operation or, if that Act has come
into operation before the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent,
that sub-section shall be deemed to have come into operation on the day on
which that Act came into operation.

(10) The remaining provisions of this Act shall come into operation on such
date as is, or such respective dates as are, fixed by Proclamation.