Victorian Numbered Acts

PORTS AND MARINE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2017 (NO. 55 OF 2017) - SECT 1

The main purposes of this Act are—

        (a)     to amend the Marine Safety Act 2010 —

              (i)     to apply safety duties to local port managers and to persons who manage boating activity events; and

              (ii)     to extend the safety duties that apply to pilotage service providers; and

              (iii)     to remove the ability of children between the ages of 12 and 16 to apply for a personal watercraft endorsement on their marine licence; and

              (iv)     to make the dangerous operation of a vessel offence apply in circumstances where the vessel is at anchor or made fast to the shore; and

              (v)     to permit waterway managers to relocate, seize and dispose of things abandoned on waterways under the waterway manager's control and recover all associated costs of relocating, seizing and disposing of abandoned things; and    

              (vi)     to provide for the maintenance of the knowledge, skills and medical fitness of vessel pilots; and

              (vii)     to change the way criminal liability of officers of bodies corporate in respect of certain specified offences is to be determined; and

              (viii)     to provide for new arrangements for the use and disclosure of information collected and held by the Safety Director; and

              (ix)     to make other amendments to improve the operation of that Act; and

        (b)     to amend the Marine (Drug, Alcohol and Pollution Control) Act 1988 —

              (i)     to permit approved health professionals to take blood samples; and

              (ii)     to make provision for criminal liability of officers of bodies corporate for contraventions of certain specific offences under that Act; and

              (iii)     to make other amendments to improve the operation of that Act; and

        (c)     to amend the Port Management Act 1995 —

              (i)     to permit port managers to relocate, seize and dispose of things abandoned at ports and recover all associated costs under Division 4 of Part 5B of that Act; and

              (ii)     to make other amendments to improve the operation of that Act; and

        (d)     to amend the Road Safety Act 1986 to make an amendment to the information disclosure provisions that is consequential to the new information disclosure provisions in the Marine Safety Act 2010 .