2010-2011-2012

 

The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 

 

 

Shipping Registration Amendment (Australian International Shipping Register) Bill 2012

 

 

(Government)

(1)     Schedule 1, item 25, page 9 (lines 26 to 28), omit paragraphs 15F(2)(b) and (c), substitute:

                     (b)  any information contained in the ship’s port state control inspection records in relation to the period prescribed by the regulations; and

                     (c)  the ship’s classification society records in relation to the period prescribed by the regulations; and

[registration]

(2)     Schedule 2, item 13, page 28 (line 15), omit the heading to Division 1, substitute:

Division 1 — Application of other laws to International Register ships

[workers’ compensation]

(3)     Schedule 2, item 13, page 28 (line 16), omit the heading to section 61AA, substitute:

61AA   Application of other laws to International Register ships

[workers’ compensation]

(4)     Schedule 2, item 13, page 28 (lines 18 to 22), omit paragraphs 61AA(a) and (b), substitute:

                     (a)  the Fair Work Act 2009 does not apply in relation to when the ship is used to engage in international trading; and

                     (b)  the Seafarers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1992 does not apply in relation to the ship at any time; and

[workers’ compensation]

(5)     Schedule 2, item 13, page 28 (lines 26 and 27), omit “when the ship is used to engage in international trading”, substitute “the ship at any time”.

[workers’ compensation]

(6)     Schedule 2, item 13, page 29 (line 30), after “this Division”, insert “when the ship is used to engage in international trading”.

[workers’ compensation]

(7)     Schedule 2, item 13, page 35 (lines 8 and 9), omit “when it was engaged in international trading”.

[workers’ compensation]

(8)     Schedule 2, item 13, page 35 (line 17), omit “when it was engaged in international trading”.

[workers’ compensation]

(9)     Schedule 4, item 7, page 56 (lines 5 to 10), omit the definition of owner , substitute:

owner of a ship means one or more of the following:

                     (a)  a person who has a legal or beneficial interest in the ship;

                     (b)  a person with overall general control and management of the ship;

                     (c)  a person who has assumed responsibility for the ship from a person referred to in paragraph (a) or (b).

For the purposes of paragraphs (b) and (c), a person is not taken to have overall general control and management of a ship, or to have assumed responsibility for a ship, merely because he or she is the master or pilot of the ship.

[definition of “owner”]