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Marine Order 505 (Certificates of competency — national law) 2022

made under the Marine Safety (Domestic Commercial Vessel) National Law

Compilation no. 1
Compilation date: 1 September 2023

This compilation was prepared on 26 October 2023 taking into account amendments up to Marine Orders Amendment (Marine Order 501 — consequential changes) Order 2023.
Prepared by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority

Division 1 Preliminary
1 Name of Marine Order
2 Purpose
3 Power
4 Definitions
5 Interpretation
6 Applications
Division 2 Certificates of competency
7 Certificates of competency requirements
8 Kinds of certificates of competency
9 Issue of certificate
10 Qualifying sea service
11 National Regulator may offer alternative certificate
12 Form of certificate
13 Conditions on certificate
14 Endorsement on certificate
15 Eligibility requirements — equivalence
16 Sea service requirements — equivalence
17 National Regulator may give information about certificates of competency
Division 3 Variation, suspension and revocation of certificates of competency
18 Criteria for variation of certificate
19 Suspension of certificate
20 Criteria for revocation of certificate
21 Return of revoked certificate
Division 4 Time before issue of certificate — signed declaration by final assessor
22 Application of Division
23 Service on vessel prior to issue of certificate
24 Matters about signed declaration
Division 5 Regulatory action
25 Regulatory action by the National Regulator
Division 6 Approval of organisations to conduct final assessments
26 Application for approval of organisation to conduct final assessments
27 Approval of organisation
28 Conditions attached to approval
29 Term of approval
30 Variation, suspension and revocation of approval
31 Review of approval decisions
Division 7 Transitional and savings
32 Transitional
33 Savings
Schedule 1 Duties and functions for which a certificate of competency is required
Schedule 2 Corresponding certificates
Schedule 3 Eligibility and sea service requirements
Schedule 4 Calculating qualifying sea service
Schedule 5 Endorsements
Schedule 6 Criteria for approval of organisation to conduct final assessments
Schedule 7 Conditions on approval of organisation to conduct final assessments

Division 1 Preliminary

1 Name of Marine Order
        This Marine Order is Marine Order 505 (Certificates of competency — national law) 2022.

2 Purpose
        The purpose of this Marine Order is to provide for certificates of competency and set out standards for the qualifications of the crew and masters on domestic commercial vessels.

3 Power
       (1) The following provisions of the national law provide for this Marine Order to be made:
(a) Division 4 of Part 4 which provides for a number of matters to be prescribed for certificates of competency including who must have a certificate, how to apply, and the criteria for the issue, variation, suspension and revocation of certificates;
(b) Division 5 of Part 4 which provides for a number of matters to be