Checklist · Maritime, Shipping & Transport
Coastal trading licence check for a voyage
Checklist of the licence types and the section 12 declaration, as the Department of Infrastructure page describes them. The Coastal Trading Act was not opened. Periods are the page's, and the principal checks the Act.
- Kind
- Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Where it applies
- Commonwealth
- AI use
- Yellow You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at
- 22 October 2026
- Status
- Maintained. Checked on 22 October 2026 against the authority it cites, for Commonwealth.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Written for this library
When to use it
Use when a voyage would carry passengers or cargo between ports in Australia and the question is which coastal trading licence the department's page describes. Do not use it as the licence application.
Used for these tasks
Each task page says how far AI may help with the task and what the lawyer must review.
How AI may be used
AI may insert the ports and the dates and may calculate whether a stated licence period, as the page describes it, covers the voyage dates. The principal decides which licence is needed.
AI may
- Insert the load port, the discharge port and the voyage dates
- Name the licence or declaration the principal supplies and its expiry date
AI must not
- Must not say the voyage is authorised
- Must not define reasonable resemblance
- Must not draft an application or a statutory declaration
The lawyer checks
- Interstate movements are checked against a general, temporary or emergency licence as the page describes those licences
- An intrastate voyage is not treated as covered unless a section 12 declaration, or a section 11 instrument the principal has read, is in the file
- The Act is opened before anyone relies on a five-year, 12-month, 30-day or two-year period
Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.
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