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AMSA MO 2012/9
Marine Order 50, issue 6 (Special purpose ships)
I, Mick Kinley, Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, make this Order under subsection 425(1AA) of the Navigation Act 1912.
2 November 2012
Mick Kinley
Acting Chief Executive Officer
Division 1 Preliminary
1 Name of Order
2 Commencement
3 Repeal of Marine Orders Part 50, issue 5
4 Purpose
5 Power
6 Definitions
7 Interpretation
8 Application
Division 2 Exemptions and equivalents
9 Exemptions
10 Equivalents
Division 3 Existing ships and ships of less than 500 gross tonnage
11 Compliance with the SPS Code
Division 4 Prescribed special purpose ships and persons
12 Prescribed special purpose ships
13 Prescribed persons
Division 5 Special purpose ship safety certificate
14 Special purpose ship safety certificate required
15 Application for a special purpose ship safety certificate
16 Survey requirements
17 Issue of a special purpose ship safety certificate
Division 6 Special personnel
18 Training of special personnel
Schedule 1 Modification of section 206S of the Navigation Act

Division 1 Preliminary

1 Name of Order
       This Order is Marine Order 50, issue 6.

2 Commencement
       This Order commences on the day after it is registered.

3 Repeal of Marine Orders Part 50, issue 5
       Marine Orders Part 50, issue 5 is repealed.

4 Purpose
       4.1This Order provides for matters relating to the construction, equipment and operation of special purpose ships and the training requirements for special personnel.
       4.2This Order gives effect to the Code of Safety for Special Purpose Ships.

5 Power
       5.1Section 283A of the Navigation Act provides that the regulations may:
(a) provide for special purpose ships or special personnel for any matter for which provision is made by the Act; and
(b) provide that a specified provision of the Act does not apply, or applies with prescribed modifications, to special purpose ships or special personnel.
       5.2Subsection 425(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.
       5.3Subsection 425(1AA) of the Navigation Act provides that AMSA may make orders about any matter for which provision may be made by regulation.

6 Definitions
       In this Order:
crew means each person who works on a ship on the business of the ship, including:
(a) navigating the ship; or
(b) maintaining the ship, its machinery, systems and arrangements essential for propulsion and safe navigation; or
(c) providing services for other persons on board the ship.
existing ship means a ship constructed before 1 May 1987 other than a ship that, after 30 April 1987, is modified resulting in any of the following:
(a)