Queensland Consolidated Regulations

TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (MARINE SAFETY) REGULATION 2016 - REG 25

25 Expiry date and service requirement for particular safety equipment

(1) This section applies if a Queensland regulated ship is required by this regulation to be equipped with any of the following safety equipment—

(a) an EPIRB;

(b) a lifejacket level 50, a lifejacket level 50S, or a lifejacket level 100, that is inflatable;

(c) a fire extinguisher;

(d) a compliant handheld red flare;

(e) a compliant handheld orange smoke signal.

(2) For this chapter, the Queensland regulated ship is taken to be equipped with the safety equipment mentioned in subsection (1) (a) , (c) , (d) or (e) only if—

(a) the equipment shows a legible expiry date, however described, for the equipment; and

(b) at the relevant time—

(i) the expiry date has not passed; and

(ii) the equipment is in good working order; and

(iii) the equipment has been serviced by the manufacturer, or the manufacturer’s authorised service agent, in accordance with the manufacturer’s requirements for servicing the equipment.

(3) For this chapter, the Queensland regulated ship is taken to be equipped with a lifejacket mentioned in subsection (1) (b) only if—

(a) the lifejacket shows a legible expiry date, however described, for the lifejacket; and

(b) at the relevant time—

(i) the expiry date has not passed; and

(ii) the lifejacket is in good working order; and

(iii) each service of the lifejacket complies with the relevant servicing requirements for the lifejacket.

(4) In this section—

"relevant servicing requirements" , for a lifejacket mentioned in subsection (1) (b) , means—

(a) if the manufacturer’s requirements for servicing the lifejacket provide for the servicing of the lifejacket by, and the lifejacket is serviced by, a person other than the manufacturer or the manufacturer’s authorised service agent—

(i) the lifejacket is serviced in accordance with the manufacturer’s requirements; and

(ii) the date of the service is marked on the lifejacket in the required way; or

(b) otherwise—

(i) the lifejacket is serviced by the manufacturer or the manufacturer’s authorised service agent in accordance with the manufacturer’s requirements for servicing the lifejacket; and

(ii) the date of the service is marked on the lifejacket in the required way, or a record of the service is shown to a shipping inspector within 72 hours after a shipping inspector inspects the lifejacket.

Example of a record of a service that may be shown to a shipping inspector—

a certificate or receipt for the service given by the manufacturer or the manufacturer’s authorised service agent

"required way" , for marking the date of a service on a lifejacket, means—

(a) if the manufacturer’s requirements for servicing the lifejacket require the date of the service to be marked on the lifejacket—the date is marked on the lifejacket in accordance with the requirements; or

(b) otherwise—the month and year of the service is permanently and legibly marked on a readily accessible part of the lifejacket’s bladder, opposite the firing mechanism, in the format ‘MM–YY’.

Example for paragraph (b)—

If the lifejacket is serviced on 13 January 2022, the date of the service is marked as ‘01–22’.