MARINE SAFETY ACT 1998 - SECT 138
Adoption of codes, standards, treaties and other documents
MARINE SAFETY ACT 1998 - SECT 138
Adoption of codes, standards, treaties and other documents
138 Adoption of codes, standards, treaties and other documents
(1) The regulations may incorporate by reference, wholly or in part and with
or without modification, any standards, rules, codes, specifications or
methods, as in force at a particular time or as in force from time to time,
prescribed or published by whatever means by an authority or body (whether or
not it is a New South Wales authority or body).
(2) Without limiting
subsection (1), a regulation may adopt, wholly or in part and with or without
modification any of the following documents as in force at a particular time
or as in force from time to time--
(b) the Uniform Shipping Laws
Code within the meaning of the National law or any other code,
(c) any
Australian Standard or any standard of another country,
(d) any treaty,
convention or international agreement.
(3) The regulations may prescribe a
person or body who is to be taken to be the statutory marine authority for New
South Wales for the purposes of all or specified provisions of the National
Standard for CommercialVesselsreferred to in subsection (2) (a).