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Marine Order 57 (Helicopter operations) 2016

made under the Navigation Act 2012

Compilation no. 1
Compilation date: 1 November 2019

This compilation was prepared on 19 November 2019 taking into account amendments up to Marine Orders Amendment (Marine Order 31 — consequential changes) Order 2019
Prepared by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority

Division 1 Preliminary
1 Name of Order
2 Purpose
3 Power
4 Definitions
5 Application
Division 2 Safe arrangements
6 Vessel arrangements
7 Owner's SMS responsibilities
8 Master's responsibilities for SMS instruction, equipment and training
9 Seafarers' responsibility to carry out SMS instructions
10 Determination of landing or winching area
11 Marking of obstacles in landing or winching area
12 Load information about deck surface
13 Communications
Division 1 Preliminary

1 Name of Order
       This Order is Marine Order 57 (Helicopter operations) 2016.

2 Purpose
       This Order provides for safe vessel‑helicopter operations.
Note 1   Vessel–helicopter operations include the transfer of persons between a vessel and a helicopter and the loading or unloading of a vessel by helicopter — see section 4, definition of vessel–helicopter operation.
Note 2   A helicopter used in a vessel‑helicopter operation is subject to civil aviation legislation administered by Civil Aviation Safety Authority.

3 Power
       (1)The following provisions of the Navigation Act provide for this Order to be made:
(a) subsection 112(1) which provides that the regulations may provide for the carriage of passengers;
(b) subsection 112(4) which provides that the regulations may provide for the carriage on a vessel of cargo;
(c) subsection 125(1) which provides that the regulations may provide for musters, drills, checks of machinery and equipment and other tests;
(d) subsection 341(1) which provides that the regulations may provide for the imposition of penalties for a contravention of a provision of the regulations;
(e) subsection 342(4) which provides that a Marine Order may provide for a matter by applying, adopting or incorporating, with or without modification, any matter contained in an instrument or other document as in force or existing at a particular time or from time to time.
       (2)Subsection 339(1) of the Navigation Act provides for regulations to be made prescribing matters required or permitted to be prescribed, or that are necessary or convenient to be prescribed, for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.
       (3)Subsection 342(1) of the Navigation Act provides that AMSA may make a Marine Order about matters that can be provided for by regulation.

4 Definitions
       In this Order:
ICS Guide means the Guide to Helicopter/Ship Operations, 4th Edition (2008), published by Marisec Publications, London, on behalf of the International Chamber of Shipping.
Note   Information on purchasing or obtaining access to the ICS Guide is available from the AMSA website Marine Orders link at http://www.amsa.gov.au.