Marine Qualifications

Application Forms and Fees

Approved Courses

Certificates and Endorsements

Certificates of Recognition

Certificate of Recognition Revalidation

Certificate Revalidation

Coastal Pilotage

Competencies

Customs NMU - Recognition of Sea Service

Oral Examinations

Immigration Qualification Assessments

Maritime Skills Availability Study

Medicals

Royal Australian Navy: Recognition of Sea Service

Sea Service guides

STCW Endorsement Guidelines for State issued certificates

Trailer Hopper Suction Dredgers, Recognition of Sea Service

Maritime Training (RTO's Restricted Access)

AMSA Charges for Marine Qualifications Services

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AMSA provides a range of services to individuals relating to Marine Qualifications. Charges are applied for all of these services, and these are set at a level aimed at recovering the full cost of providing each of the services in question.

The charges currently applicable for each of these services (based on the average processing time by AMSA’s Marine Surveyors when providing each of these services or on the production costs of certificates and licences) are as follows:

Examinations/Assessment Applications

Assessment of applications/sea service/qualifications

$185

Oral examination for a Certificate of Competency

$370

Assessment of marine qualifications for immigration purposes

$185

Processing application for approval as Medical Inspector of Seamen

$185

Certificates

Initial issue of a Certificate of Competency

$127

Revalidation of a Certificate of Competency or Endorsement

$93

Endorsements to an existing Certificate of Competency

$93

Issue of a Certificate of Recognition

$127

Revalidation of a Certificate of Recognition

$93

Initial issue of a GMDSS General Operators Certificate

$93

Revalidation of a GMDSS General Operators Certificate

$93

Issue of a Certificate of Rating and/or STCW endorsement for a Certificate of Rating

$93

Issue of a Certificate of Proficiency as Chief Integrated Rating & Integrated Rating

$93

Endorsements to an existing Certificate of Proficiency

$93

Issue of a replacement copy of a Certificate of Medical Fitness

$20

Initial issue of a coastal pilots licence

$185

Reissue of a coastal pilots licence

$93

Issue of a Certificate of Safety Training

$93

Issue of a STCW endorsement - for State Certificate

$93

Revalidation of a STCW endorsement - for State Certificate

$93

Issue of a replacement certificate

same as for issue

Issue of a replacement licence

same as for issue

Additional charge for providing/faxing a copy of a certificate

$15

The charges for the above services are exempt from the Goods and Services Tax.

These charges are authorised by AMSA’s Determination fixing Charges, No.1 of 2001, issued under Section 47(1) of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority Act 1990.

This advice was last updated: on 1 August 2002.

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last updated: 09 December 2004