Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00336:front:0:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00336
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Character Range: 2560–5340

vessels
49 Application of Division 6
50 Requirements for fishing vessels at least 500 GT
51 Requirements for fishing vessels less than 500 GT
Division 7 Recovery of persons from the water
52 Recovery of persons from the water
Schedule 1 Regulated Australian vessels — additional requirements for cargo vessels at least 500GT and for all passenger vessels
Schedule 2 First aid outfit requirements
Division 1 Preliminary

1 Name of Order
        This Order is Marine Order 25 (Equipment — lifesaving) 2014.

2 Purpose
        This Order:
(a) gives effect to parts of Chapter III of SOLAS which incorporates requirements of the LSA Code; and
(b) prescribes matters for paragraphs 339(2)(b) and (g) of the Navigation Act.

3 Power
       (1) The following provisions of the Navigation Act provide for this Order to be made:
(a) paragraph 339(2)(b) of the Navigation Act which provides that the regulations may provide for the machinery and equipment to be carried on board vessels for sending or receiving distress, urgency and other signals;
(b) paragraph 339(2)(g) of the Navigation Act which provides that the regulations may provide for the equipment to be carried on board vessels and the measures to be carried out, for saving life at sea;
(c) paragraph 340(1)(a) of the Navigation Act which provides that the regulations may give effect to SOLAS.
       (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 341(1) of the Navigation Act provides for the imposition of penalties in regulations.
       (4) Subsection 342(1) of the Navigation Act provides that AMSA may make a Marine Order about anything that may or must be made by regulation.

4 Definitions
       (1) In this Order:
AIS-SART means a search and rescue transmitter, with an automatic identification system, approved by an issuing body.
Chapter III means Chapter III of SOLAS.
GNSS means Global Navigation Satellite System.
GT, for a vessel, means the gross tonnage of the vessel worked out under regulation 3 of Annex 1 to the Tonnage Convention.
launching appliance means a means of transferring a survival craft or rescue boat from its stowed position safely to the water.
lifesaving appliance includes any appliance required by this Order to be fitted to, or carried on, a vessel.
lifesaving equipment means equipment that is:
(a) stored in, or belonging to, a lifesaving appliance; or
(b) required by this Order to be fitted to, or carried on, a vessel.
LSA Code means the International Life-Saving Appliance Code adopted by IMO Resolution MSC.48 (66), as in force from time to time.
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