Commonwealth Numbered Acts

NAVIGATION AMENDMENT ACT 1980 No. 87, 1980 - SECT 3

3. Section 2 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section
substituted: Application of Act

"2. (1) Except in so far as the application of this section is expressly
excluded by a provision of this Act, this Act does not apply in relation to-

   (a)  a trading ship proceeding on a voyage other than an overseas voyage or
        an inter-State voyage;

   (b)  an Australian fishing vessel proceeding on a voyage other than an
        overseas voyage;

   (c)  an inland waterways vessel; or

   (d)  a pleasure craft, or in relation to its owner, master or crew.



"(2) A ship shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to be
proceeding on a voyage from the time when it is got under way for the purpose
of proceeding on the voyage until the time when it is got under way for the
purpose of proceeding on another voyage.



"(3) A voyage of an Australian fishing vessel, being a ship that is regularly
engaged in making voyages from a port or ports in Queensland, commencing at a
port in that State and ending at the same port or another port in that State
shall not be taken to be an overseas voyage by reason only that, as an
incidental part of its fishing operations on that voyage, the ship calls at a
port or ports in Papua New Guinea.".