Transport Operations (Marine Safety—Domestic Commercial Vessel National Law Application) Act 2016 (Qld)

Transport Operations (Marine Safety—Domestic Commercial Vessel National Law Application) Act 2016

An Act to apply as a law of this State a national law relating to domestic commercial vessels

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Transport Operations (Marine Safety—Domestic Commercial Vessel National Law Application) Act 2016.

2 Commencement This Act commences on a day to be fixed by proclamation.

3 Purpose of Act (1) The purpose of this Act is to adopt in this State a national approach to the regulation of marine safety in relation to domestic commercial vessels (the domestic commercial vessel national law). (2) For the purpose mentioned in subsection (1), this Act— (a) applies the Commonwealth domestic commercial vessel national law as a law of this State; and (b) makes provision to enable the Commonwealth domestic commercial vessel national law and the applied law of this State to be administered on a uniform basis by the Commonwealth (and by State officials as delegates of the Commonwealth) as if they constituted a single law of the Commonwealth.

4 Definitions (1) In this Act— applied provisions means the Commonwealth domestic commercial vessel national law that applies as a law of this State because of section 5, including any modification under part 8. Commonwealth administrative laws means the following Commonwealth Acts, regulations or other legislative instruments— (a) the Administrative Review Tribunal Act 2024, other than part 7; (b) the Freedom of Information Act 1982; (c) the Ombudsman Act 1976; (d) the Privacy Act 1988; (e) the regulations and other legislative instruments in force under any of those Acts. Commonwealth domestic commercial vessel national law means the provisions of the following Acts, regulations or other legislative instruments— (a) the Marine Safety (Domestic Commercial Vessel) National Law of the Commonwealth (being the provisions applying as a law of the Commonwealth because of section 4 of the Marine Safety (Domestic Commercial Vessel) National Law Act 2012 of the Commonwealth); (b) the regulations and other legislative instruments in force under that Law; (c) any other provision of a Commonwealth Act (or of a regulation or other legislative instrument in force under a Commonwealth Act) that is of a savings or transitional nature consequent on the enactment or amendment of that Law. domestic commercial vessel national law see section 20. domestic commercial vessel national regulation see section 20. (2) Terms used in this Act and also in the Commonwealth domestic commercial vessel national law have the same meanings in this Act as they have in that law. (3) In this Act, a reference to a Commonwealth Act includes a reference to— (a) that Commonwealth Act, as amended and in force for the time being; and (b) an Act enacted in substitution for that Act and, if it is amended, as amended and in force for the time being.