Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00015:section:9:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00015
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 9 (pt 2/14)
Character Range: 70648–73511

a law of the Commonwealth, or of a State or Territory.
Australian seas means:
 (a) for Australian vessels and foreign vessels whose Administration is a party to the Ballast Water Convention—the waters (including the internal waters of Australia) that are within the outer limits of the exclusive economic zone of Australia; or
 (b) for all other foreign vessels—the Australian territorial seas.
Note: This definition is affected by sections 260 (vessels in dry dock) and 261 (foreign vessels and the Australian Antarctic Territory).
Australian territorial seas means the waters (including the internal waters of Australia) within the outer limits of the territorial sea of Australia (including every external Territory).
Note: This definition is affected by sections 260 (vessels in dry dock) and 261 (foreign vessels and the Australian Antarctic Territory).
Australian territory has the meaning given by section 12.
Australian vessel means a vessel that:
 (a) has Australian nationality under section 29 of the Shipping Registration Act 1981; or
 (b) is a vessel whose Administration is the Commonwealth.
baggage means goods:
 (a) that are carried on a conveyance by or for a person who is on board the conveyance (including the person in charge and members of the crew of the conveyance); or
 (b) that a person intended to be so carried.
ballast water has the same meaning as Ballast Water has in the Ballast Water Convention.
Note: Chapter 5 (ballast water) does not generally apply to permanent ballast water in sealed tanks (see section 263).
Ballast Water Convention means the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments, done at London on 13 February 2004, as in force from time to time.
Note 1: The Ballast Water Convention includes the Annex to the Ballast Water Convention.
Note 2: The Convention could in 2014 be viewed in the Australian Treaties Library on the AustLII website (http://www.austlii.edu.au).
ballast water exchange means a process involving:
 (a) the discharge of ballast water from a tank on a vessel; and
 (b) the uptake of water into the tank simultaneously with, or immediately after, the discharge.
ballast water management has the same meaning as Ballast Water Management has in the Ballast Water Convention.
ballast water management certificate has the meaning given by section 288.
ballast water management plan has the meaning given by section 286.
ballast water operation means:
 (a) taking up ballast water into a vessel (whether deliberately, accidentally or as part of a ballast water exchange); or
 (b) discharging ballast water from a vessel (whether deliberately, accidentally or as part of a ballast water exchange); or
 (c) treating or circulating ballast water on a vessel for the purposes of ballast water management.
ballast water reception facility means a facility