Commonwealth Numbered Acts

NAVIGATION AMENDMENT ACT 1981 No. 10, 1981 - SECT 9

9. (1) Section 14 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (13)
and substituting the following sub-section:



"(13) In the preceding provisions of this section, a reference to a ship shall
be read as including a reference to a ship that is intended to be constructed
or is in the course of construction and, in either case, is intended to become
a ship of a kind referred to in paragraph 10 (a), (b) or (c).".

(2) Sub-section (1) shall come into operation on the commencement of this
sub-section or, if sub-section 8 (1) of the Navigation Amendment Act 1979
does, not, or has not, come into operation on or before that commencement, on
the, commencement of that sub-section.

(3) If section 9 of the Navigation Amendment Act 1979 does not, or has not
come into operation on or before the commencement of this sub-section section
14 of the Principal Act is amended -

   (a)  by omitting sub-section (1) and substituting the following
        sub-section:



"(1) Subject to sub-section (9) -

   (a)  the owner of a ship shall not suffer the ship to go to sea unless the
        ship carries a duly certificated master and the prescribed complement
        of officers for the ship; and

   (b)  the master of a ship shall not take the ship to sea unless the ship
        carries the prescribed complement of officers for the ship.

Penalty: $2,000.".; and

   (b)  by omitting from sub-section (2) "registered in Australia or engaged
        in the coasting trade".