Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00094:section:14:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00094
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 14 (pt 2/10)
Character Range: 36705–39399

of the vessel.
child of a person includes a person who is a child of the person within the meaning of the Family Law Act 1975.
civil penalty order: see section 291.
civil penalty provision means a provision for whose contravention another provision states that a person is liable to a civil penalty.
close quarters situation means a situation in which vessels pass each other, or a vessel passes another vessel, a person or an object, in such proximity that a reasonable person would conclude that in all the circumstances there was a risk of an imminent collision.
coastal sea of Australia means:
 (a) the territorial sea of Australia; and
 (b) the sea on the landward side of the territorial sea of Australia and not within the limits of a State or internal Territory;
and includes the airspace over, and the sea‑bed and subsoil beneath, any such sea.
compulsory pilotage area: see subsection 163(1).
constable has the meaning given by section 3 of the Crimes Act 1914.
container has the same meaning as in the Container Convention.
Container Convention means the International Convention for Safe Containers, done at Geneva on 2 December 1972, as amended and in force for Australia from time to time.
Note: The text of the Convention is set out in Australian Treaty Series 1981 No. 3 ([1981] ATS 3). In 2012, the text of a Convention in the Australian Treaty Series was accessible through the Australian Treaties Library on the AustLII website (www.austlii.edu.au).
dangerous goods has the same meaning as in Chapter VII of the Safety Convention.
de facto partner has the meaning given by the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.
domestic commercial vessel has the same meaning as in the Marine Safety (Domestic Commercial Vessel) National Law.
drug test means a test under section 79.
eligible court means:
 (a) the Federal Court of Australia; or
 (b) a court of a State or Territory that has jurisdiction in relation to matters arising under this Act.
enforcement powers: see section 260.
enforcement warrant means:
 (a) a warrant issued under section 287; or
 (b) a warrant signed by a magistrate under section 288.
evidential burden, in relation to a matter, means the burden of adducing or pointing to evidence that suggests a reasonable possibility that the matter exists or does not exist.
evidential material means:
 (a) in relation to an offence against this Act:
 (i) a thing with respect to which the offence has been committed or is suspected, on reasonable grounds, of having been committed; or
 (ii) a thing that there are reasonable grounds for suspecting will afford evidence as to the commission of the offence; or
 (iii) a thing that there are reasonable grounds for suspecting is