Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NAVIGATION ACT 2012 - SECT 4

Overview of this Act

  (1)   This Act is about maritime safety, seafarers and the prevention of pollution of the marine environment . It provides for matters relating to the following:

  (a)   seafarers (Chapter   2);

  (b)   the safety of regulated Australian vessels and foreign vessels (Chapter   3);

  (c)   prevention of pollution (Chapter   4);

  (d)   tonnage ( Chapter   5 );

  (e)   the safety of navigation ( Chapter   6 );

  (f)   wrecks and salvage ( Chapter   7 );

  (g)   compl ying with, and enforcing , th is Act (Chapter   8 );

  (h)   other general matters that relate to the above (Chapter   9 ).

Overview of the rest of this Chapter

  (2)   The rest of this Chapter deals with:

  (a)   the application of this Act, including how it interacts with certain State and Territory laws and its geographical application (Part   3); and

  (b)   definitions that are used in this Act (Part   4); and

  (c)   provisions that enable a vessel that would not otherwise be a regulated Australian vessel to opt in to coverage (Part   5).