This Act is composed of the following Parts: Preliminary (1); Administration (2); The Court of Marine Inquiry (3); Parts 4-6 (repealed); Safety and prevention of accidents (7); Navigable waters (8); Provisions relating to seamen (9); Miscellaneous provisions and legal procedure (10). This Act regulates the navigation of all vessels, and includes provisions on safety and prevention of accidents as well as obstructions in navigable waters and harbour regulations. Detailed legal and administrative provisions relating to enforcement are also included. The Minister may, in cases where there is reason to suspect that the provisions of this Act or the Commercial Vessels Act 1979 are not complied with, require the owner, master, or any of the seamen of any ship being within any port in the Jurisdiction to produce any official log-books or other documents relating to any such seaman in their respective possession or control (sec 11). Inspectors may be appointed by the minister under section 16. For the purpose of giving jurisdiction under this Act, every offence shall be deemed to have been committed, and every cause of complaint to have arisen, either: (a) in the place in which the same actually was committed or arose; or (b) in any place in which the offender or person complained against may be (sect. 159).
Australia · 1901-12-19