Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00094:section:14:p6
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00094
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 14 (pt 6/10)
Character Range: 46479–49094

within the meaning of the Customs Act 1901.
official logbook means a logbook kept in accordance with regulations made for the purposes of section 309.
operate a vessel means:
 (a) determine or exercise control over the course or direction of the vessel or over the means of propulsion of the vessel, whether or not the vessel is underway; or
 (b) load or unload the vessel when it is moored or berthed.
opt‑in declaration, in relation to a vessel, means a declaration under subsection 25(2) in relation to the vessel.
overloaded, in relation to a vessel, has the meaning given by regulations made for the purposes of paragraph 113(a).
overseas voyage: see section 16.
owner of a vessel means one or more of the following:
 (a) a person who has a legal or beneficial interest in the vessel, other than as a mortgagee;
 (b) a person with overall general control and management of the vessel;
 (c) a person who has assumed responsibility for the vessel from a person referred to in paragraph (a) or (b).
For the purposes of paragraph (b), a person is not taken to have overall general control and management of a vessel merely because he or she is the master or pilot of the vessel.
passenger means a person carried on board a vessel with the knowledge or consent of the owner of the vessel or his or her representative, or of the charterer or master of the vessel, other than:
 (a) a person employed or engaged in any capacity on board the vessel on the business of the vessel; or
 (b) a person on board the vessel:
 (i) under an obligation imposed on the master by any law (including a law of a country other than Australia) to assist shipwrecked, distressed or other persons; or
 (ii) because of circumstances that could not have been prevented by the owner, charterer, agent or master of the vessel; or
 (c) a child under the age of 1 year; or
 (d) if the vessel is a special purpose vessel—special personnel in relation to the vessel; or
 (e) if the vessel is an industrial personnel vessel—industrial personnel on board the vessel.
pilot means a person who does not belong to, but has the conduct of, a vessel.
pilotage provider includes a person who is responsible for the following:
 (a) training pilots;
 (b) the safe transfer and operation of pilots;
 (c) assigning or allocating a pilot to the transit of a vessel through particular waters;
 (d) undertaking such other activities in relation to pilotage as are prescribed by the regulations;
irrespective of the legal relationship, contractual or otherwise, between that person and the pilot concerned.
pollution certificate means a certificate issued under