New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COMMERCIAL VESSELS ACT 1979 - SECT 30A

30A Minimum complement of vessels

(1) Regulations may be made for or with respect to the minimum number of duly qualified and other crew of specified designations to be carried in a vessel in prescribed waters.

(2) The regulations referred to in subsection (1) may authorise the Minister to determine the minimum number of duly qualified and other crew of specified designations to be carried in:

(a) a vessel,

(b) a vessel of a specified class, or

(c) all vessels other than a vessel of a specified class.

(3) A regulation referred to in subsection (1), or a determination of the Minister thereunder, may specify different requirements:

(a) for different waters,

(b) for the carriage of different cargoes,

(c) for the performance (whether in port or at sea) of different operations carried out by, or in relation to, the vessel,

(d) according to whether the vessel is in port or at sea, or

(e) according to any other specified factor.

(4) A regulation referred to in subsection (1), or a determination of the Minister thereunder, may adopt, wholly or in part, the requirements of, or made under, a prescribed law relating to the minimum number of duly qualified and other crew of specified designations to be carried in any vessel or class of vessel.