Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PROTECTION OF THE SEA (PREVENTION OF POLLUTION FROM SHIPS) ACT 1983 No. 41, 1983 - SECT 3

3. (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears-

''Australia'' includes the external Territories;

''Australian ship'' means-

   (a)  a ship registered in Australia; or

   (b)  an unregistered ship having Australian nationality;

''foreign ship'' means a ship that is not an Australian ship;

''inspector'' means a person who-

   (a)  is a surveyor for the purposes of the Navigation Act 1912; or

   (b)  is appointed by the Minister, by writing under his hand, to be an
        inspector for the purposes of this Act;

''master'', in relation to a ship, means the person having command or charge
of the ship;

''the Convention'' means the 1973 Convention as modified and added to by the
1978 Protocol;

''the 1973 Convention'' means the International Convention for the Prevention
of Pollution from Ships, 1973 (a copy of the English text of which, apart from
Annexes III, IV and V to it, is set out in Schedule 1);

''the 1978 Protocol'' means the Protocol of 1978 relating to the International
Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 (a copy of the
English text of which, apart from Annexes III, IV and V to it, is set out in
Schedule 2);

''this Act'' includes the regulations and orders made in pursuance of the
regulations.

(2) A reference in a section of this Act to a prescribed officer shall be read
as a reference to the person for the time being occupying, or performing the
duties of, an office in the Department of State that deals with matters
arising under that section, being an office that is prescribed for the
purposes of that section.

(3) Except in so far as the contrary intention appears, an expression that is
used in this Act and in the Convention, otherwise than in an annex to the
Convention, (whether or not a particular meaning is assigned to it by the
Convention) has, in this Act, the same meaning as in the Convention.