Published 2010-10-13
Keywords
- Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA),
- offshore constitutional settlement,
- Uniform Shipping Laws Code,
- 1997 Inter-Governmental Agreement establishing a National Marine Safety Regulatory Regime,
- marine safety
- government regulation,
- National Marine Safety Committee,
- Australian Transport Council,
- maritime law reform,
- maritime law uniformity,
- safety regulator,
- Navigation Act 1912 ...More
Abstract
This paper contains the slides for Kinley's presentation about uniform regulation of commercial vessels in Australia. Kinley charts the development over the last few decades of the idea for uniform marine safety legislation and operational practices throughout Australia, up to the release of the Australian Transport Council's national action plan 'A New Beginning for Transport' in 2008 and the endorsement, in-principle, by Transport Ministers of a single national system for maritime safety regulation, administered by AMSA.
In 2009, it was announced that from 2013, AMSA would become the national safety regulator for all commercial shipping in Australia, and that the Navigation Act 1912 (Cth) would be rewritten as part of the Federal Government's maritime reform program. Kinley explains the mechanics and challenges of the reform and how the new national system will function.