Commonwealth Numbered Acts

MARINE PERSONNEL LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1997 No. 10, 1997 - SCHEDULE 2

Schedule 2-Amendment of the Occupational Health and 
Safety (Maritime Industry) Act 1993  1 Section 4 (definition of accident)
Repeal the definition. 2 Section 4 (definition of operator) Repeal the
definition, substitute:
operator, in relation to a prescribed ship or a prescribed unit, means the
person who has the management or control of the ship or unit. 3 Section 4
(definition of prescribed ship) Repeal the definition, substitute:
prescribed ship means a ship to which Part II of the Navigation Act 1912
applies but does not include:

   (a)  a ship or off-shore industry mobile unit to which the Petroleum 
        (Submerged Lands) Act 1967 applies; or

   (b)  a Government ship. 4 After paragraph 6(1)(a) Insert:

   (aa) between 2 places outside Australia; or 5 Subsection 100(2) Omit
        "(1)(a) to (f)", substitute "(1)(a), (c), (d), (e), (f) and (h)". 6
        Paragraph 100(2)(g) Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

   (g)  a person who owns any plant, substance or thing to which the decision
        referred to in paragraph (1)(a), (c), (d) or (h) relates. 7 Subsection
        100(3) Omit "(1)(g) or (h)", substitute "(1)(b) or (g)". 8 Subsection
        109(1) After "Authority", insert "or any other body". 9 At the end of
        section 121 Add (but not as part of paragraph (b)):
including regulations imposing penalties (not exceeding 10 penalty units) for
a contravention of the regulations.

[Minister's second reading speech made in-
Senate on 27 November 1996
House of Representatives on 25 February 1997]