Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00559:clause:1_8
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00559
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 8
Character Range: 51485–52294

8  Definition of vessel
 (1) In this Law:
vessel means a craft for use, or that is capable of being used, in navigation by water, however propelled or moved, and includes an air‑cushion vehicle, a barge, a lighter, a submersible, a ferry in chains and a wing‑in‑ground effect craft.
 (2) Despite subsection (1), none of the following is a vessel:
 (a) an aircraft;
 (b) a thing that is a facility for the purposes of Schedule 3 to the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 of the Commonwealth.
 (3) Despite subsections (1) and (2), the regulations may provide as follows:
 (a) that a specified thing, or a thing included in a specified class, is a vessel;
 (b) that a specified thing, or a thing included in a specified class, is not a vessel.

Part 2—The National Marine Safety Regulator