Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00015:section:285
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00015
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 285
Character Range: 463487–464568

285  Simplified outline of this Part

      This Part provides for ballast water management plans and ballast water management certificates for vessels to be issued, endorsed and recognised.
      Division 1A requires most vessels to have a ballast water management plan and a ballast water management certificate. Australian vessels require a plan and certificate in and outside Australian seas. Foreign vessels require a plan and certificate only if they are in Australian seas.
      Division 2 sets out what a ballast water management plan is, and provides for the determination under section 308A to prescribe a scheme for the Director of Biosecurity and survey authorities to approve ballast water management plans for vessels.
      Division 3 sets out what a ballast water management certificate is, and provides for the determination under section 308A to prescribe a scheme for the Director of Biosecurity and survey authorities to survey vessels for the purposes of certification.

Division 1A—General requirement to have ballast water management plan and certificate