Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2023L01656:front:0:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2023L01656
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Character Range: 2880–5780

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) 2016
        Marine Order 27 (Safety of navigation and radio equipment) 2016 is repealed.

2 Purpose
        This Marine Order:
(a) provides for the following:
 (i) navigation safety measures and equipment;
 (ii) radio equipment;
 (iii) safety, urgency and distress communications; and
(b) gives effect to the following:
 (i) Chapter IV of SOLAS (Radiocommunications);
 (ii) paragraph 7 of Regulation 10 and paragraph 7 of Regulation 11 of Chapter V of SOLAS (Safety of navigation);
 (iii) Regulations 15 to 21, 24, 27, 28 and 29, and 31 to 35 of Chapter V of SOLAS.

3 Power
       (1) The following provisions of the Navigation Act provide for this Marine Order to be made:
(a) paragraph 309(2)(a) which provides that the regulations may prescribe the entries to be made in an official logbook and when they must be made;
(b) paragraph 339(2)(b) which provides that the regulations may provide for machinery and equipment to be carried on board vessels including for sending or receiving distress, urgency and other signals, radio installations, radio navigational aids and communication equipment, and compasses;
(c) paragraph 339(2)(c) which provides that the regulations may provide for the operation, maintenance, checking and testing of this machinery and equipment;
(d) paragraph 339(2)(g) which provides that the regulations may provide for the equipment to be carried on vessels and measures to be carried out for the saving of life at sea;
(e) paragraph 339(2)(l) which provides that the regulations may provide for logbooks;
(f) paragraph 339(2)(m) which provides that the regulations may provide for records for compliance with the Act;
(g) paragraph 340(1)(a) which provides that the regulations may give effect to SOLAS;
(h) subsection 341(1) which provides that the regulations may provide for the imposition of penalties for a contravention of a provision of the regulations.
       (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 342(1) of the Navigation Act provides that AMSA may make a Marine Order about matters that can be provided for by regulation.

4 Definitions
       (1) In this Marine Order:
AIS-SART means an automatic identification system search and rescue transmitter capable of operating on frequencies dedicated for AIS (161.975 MHz (AIS1) and 162.025 MHz (AIS2)).
approved means approved by:
(a) for a regulated Australian vessel — the issuing body; or
(b) for a foreign vessel — the government