Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

Navigation Amendment Act 2025

No. 2, 2025

An Act to amend the Navigation Act 2012, and for related purposes

Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

Navigation Amendment Act 2025

No. 2, 2025

An Act to amend the Navigation Act 2012, and for related purposes

[Assented to 14 February 2025]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

This Act is the Navigation Amendment Act 2025.

2 Commencement

(1) Each provision of this Act 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 Act	The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.	15 February 2025

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3 Schedules

Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Navigation Act 2012

1 Subsection 14(1)

Insert:

industrial personnel has the same meaning as in the Safety Convention.

industrial personnel vessel means a vessel that is prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this definition.

2 Subsection 14(1) (at the end of the definition of passenger)

Add:

; or (e) if the vessel is an industrial personnel vessel—industrial personnel on board the vessel.

3 Subsection 14(1) (after paragraph (d) of the definition of seafarer)

Insert:

(da) if the vessel is an industrial personnel vessel—industrial personnel on board the vessel;

4 Sections 124, 129, 146, 175 and 180 (note)

Repeal the note.

5 Paragraph 315(1)(b)

Omit “subsection 247(1)”, substitute “subsection 248(1)”.

6 After paragraph 339(2)(j)

Insert:

(ja) industrial personnel vessels;