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Section 227 Safety equipment requirement about life rafts continues

Transport Operations (Marine Safety) Regulation 2016

(1) This section applies if, immediately before the commencement, an other Queensland regulated ship was required to be equipped with a life raft under former section 13.

(2) The ship is required to be equipped with the life raft until the end of the period the ship is registered, whether or not the ship’s registration is renewed.

(3) Section 8 applies to the life raft as if the requirement under subsection (2) were in chapter 2.

(4) Section 25(2) applies to the life raft as if it were mentioned in section 25(1).

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

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