Cocos (Keeling) Islands Designation of Waters Ordinance 2018 (Cth)

Cocos (Keeling) Islands Designation of Waters Ordinance 2018

Ordinance No. 2, 2018

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret'd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Ordinance.

Dated 27 September 2018

Peter Cosgrove Governor‑General

By His Excellency's Command

Sussan Ley Assistant Minister for Regional Development and Territories Parliamentary Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development

Contents 1 Name 2 Commencement 3 Authority 4 Designation of waters as partially smooth waters Schedule 1—Area containing partially smooth waters

1 Name This Ordinance is the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Designation of Waters Ordinance 2018.

2 Commencement (1) Each provision of this Ordinance specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Provisions Commencement Date/Details 1. The whole of this Ordinance The day after this Ordinance is registered. 4 October 2018

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Ordinance as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Ordinance. (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Ordinance. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Ordinance.

3 Authority This Ordinance is made under the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Act 1955.

4 Designation of waters as partially smooth waters (1) The object of this section is to designate waters for the purposes of the definition of partially smooth waters in the Dictionary in Part B of the National Standard for Commercial Vessels as defined in section 6 of Schedule 1 to the Marine Safety (Domestic Commercial Vessel) National Law Act 2012. Note: The Standard deals with the operation of domestic commercial vessels in partially smooth waters. (2) The waters within the area described in Schedule 1 are designated as partially smooth waters. (3) The area described in Schedule 1 is described by reference to the World Geodetic System 1984 datum.