Summary

Introduced with the Navigation (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2012, the bill provides for the regulation of international ship and seafarer safety, employment conditions for Australian seafarers and shipboard aspects of protection of the marine environment, including the implementation of several international conventions covering matters such as the safety of life at sea, training and certification of seafarers, prevention of collisions at sea, watertight integrity and reserve buoyancy of ships, pollution prevention standards for ships, safety of containers and salvage, and the determination of gross and net tonnage of ships.