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AMSA MO 2023/9
Marine Order 27 (Safety of navigation and radio equipment) 2023
I, Michael Kinley, Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, make this Order under subsection 342(1) of the Navigation Act 2012.
Dated   11 December 2023
Michael Kinley
Chief Executive Officer

Division 1 Preliminary
1 Name of Marine Order
1A Commencement
1B Repeal of Marine Order 27 (Safety of navigation and radio equipment) 2016
2 Purpose
3 Power
4 Definitions
5 Interpretation
6 Application
7 Exemptions
8 Equivalents
Division 2 Navigation safety
Subdivision 2.1 Navigation safety measures
9 Cooperation with search and rescue services
10 Ship reporting systems
11 Ships' routeing
12 Use of heading or track control systems
13 Records of navigational activities and daily reporting
14 Safe navigation and avoidance of dangerous situations
15 Persons not to interfere with master's decisions
Subdivision 2.2 Navigational safety equipment etc
16 Bridge design, bridge procedures, design and arrangement of navigational systems and equipment
17 Maintenance of navigational equipment
18 Electromagnetic compatibility
19 Navigational systems and equipment — performance standards
20 Navigational systems and equipment — installation and use requirements etc
21 Long-range identification and tracking of vessels
22 Voyage data recorders
23 International Code of Signals and IAMSAR Manual
24 Nautical charts and nautical publications
25 Magnetic compass
26 Other equipment
Division 3 Radio installations and radio equipment
27 Radio installations and carriage requirements for radio equipment etc
28 Functional requirements for radio installations and equipment
29 Other requirements for radio installations and equipment — type approval, performance standards, maintenance etc
30 EPIRBs — registration and disposal
Division 4 Safety, urgency and distress communications
Subdivision 4.1 Safety communications including safety signals and danger messages
31 Safety signals and danger messages — prescribed matters
32 Records of dangers and danger messages
33 Transmission of safety communications and danger messages
34 Duties of persons hearing safety communications
Subdivision 4.2 Urgency and distress communications
35 Transmission of urgency communications
36 Transmission of distress communications
37 Duties of persons hearing urgency or distress communications
Division 5 Other matters
38 Obligations and procedures in relation to persons in distress at sea
39 Life-saving signals to be used by ships, aircraft or persons in distress
40 Misuse of flares etc
41 Documentation requirements — general
Division 6 Transitional arrangements
42 Continuation of exemptions
43 Approvals
Schedule 1 Compass deviation book information
Schedule 2 Radio installations and equipment — regulated Australian vessels to which Chapter IV of SOLAS does not apply

Division 1 Preliminary

1 Name of Marine Order
        This Order is Marine Order 27 (Safety of navigation and radio equipment) 2023.

1A Commencement
        This Marine Order commences on 1 January 2024.

1B Repeal of Marine Order 27 (Safety of navigation and radio equipment)