Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NAVIGATION ACT 2012 - SECT 172

  (1)   The master or an owner of a vessel may apply to AMSA for an exemption from the requirement to navigate the vessel with a licensed pilot in a compulsory pilotage area.

  (2)   The application must:

  (a)   be in writing; and

  (b)   contain the information prescribed by the regulations ; and

  (c)   be in the approved form.

  (3)   AMSA must, after considering the application:

  (a)   by instrument in writing, grant or refuse to grant the exemption applied for; and

  (b)   give the applicant a copy of the instrument and, in the case of a refusal, a statement of the reasons for that refusal.

  (4)   A refusal to grant the exemption applied for may be a refusal to grant the exemption at all or a refusal to grant the exemption as to a part of the vessel ' s proposed navigation in the compulsory pilotage area.

  (5)   An exemption under subsection   ( 1) is subject to the conditions specifie d in the e xemption.

  (6)   An instrument under this section granting or refusing an exemption is not a legislative instrument .