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Section 221 Registration condition about maximum number of persons continues

Transport Operations (Marine Safety) Regulation 2016

(1) Subsection (2) applies to an other Queensland regulated ship if—

(a) the ship’s registration under the 2004 regulation is continued under section 216; and

(b) there is a builders plate for the ship; and

(c) immediately before the commencement, the ship’s registration certificate stated the ship may carry a higher number of persons than the number stated on the builders plate.

(2) Section 30(1)(b) does not apply to the ship and, from the commencement, the ship is taken to be registered on the condition that the owner or master of the ship must not, without a reasonable excuse, carry on the ship, or on a part of the ship, more persons than is stated for the ship, or for the part of the ship, in the ship’s registration certificate.

(3) Also, section 30(1)(b) does not apply to an other Queensland regulated ship to which section 250 of the Act applies.

Queensland Marine Safety Regulation 2016 current as at 1 February 2026. Official text: legislation.qld.gov.au.

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