Consultations

We regularly seek input from interested stakeholders during operational and regulatory processes. Our open and past consultations are listed below.

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Open consultations

View the list of our current consultations, and find out how to make a submission and have your say. You can also take our survey to provide general feedback about AMSA.

Have your say—lifejacket wear requirements on domestic commercial vessels

We are taking action to improve safety by proposing to make it mandatory to wear a lifejacket on...

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Have your say—make a submission

We gather feedback through consultative committees and public consultation. Feedback from...

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Have your say—on our performance as a regulator

Our focus is on delivering better practice regulation so we can support safe vessel operations,...

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As the national regulator, transparency and stakeholder engagement is important to us. Find out about our past consultations, the feedback we received from the public, and input from relevant stakeholders.

Consultations

Open consultations

Have your say—lifejacket wear requirements on domestic commercial vessels

Have your say—make a submission

Have your say—on our performance as a regulator

Closed consultations

Closed consultations—reports

Have your say - Final consultation on near coastal qualifications

Have your say—Eddystone Point and Cape Leeuwin lighthouse heritage management plans

Feedback on the 2020-21 Cost Recovery Implementation Statement stakeholder engagement

Have your say—Smoky Cape Lighthouse heritage management plan

Have your say—Wilsons Promontory Lighthouse heritage management plan

Have your say—Montague Island Lighthouse heritage management plan

Have your say on simplifying safety equipment lists

Consultation—Marine order 63—Vessel reporting systems

Consultation—Marine Order 47 (Offshore industry units) Amendment Order 2020

Consultation—Marine order 21—Safety and emergency arrangements

Consultation—Draft amendment to Marine Order 11—living and working conditions on vessels

Watertight and weathertight integrity

Consultative 2021-22 Budget Cost Recovery Implementation Statement

Consultation—draft Marine Order 58 (Safe management of vessels) reissued Order 2020

Have your say on changes to Marine order 504 to keep passengers safe

Consultation on the draft 2019-20 Cost Recovery Implementation Statement

Consultation—Marine order 27—Safety of navigation and radio equipment

Have your say—Cape Byron lighthouse heritage management plan

Tell us how we could improve safety on passenger vessels

Consultation—Marine Order 97 (Marine pollution prevention – air pollution) Amendment Order 2019

Consultation—draft Marine Order 31 (SOLAS and vessel safety certification) 2019

Proposed changes to Australian near coastal seafarer certificates

Consultation—Maritime high frequency (HF) radiotelephone in Australia

Changes to Marine Order 47 (Offshore Industry Units)

Outcomes of consultation on short term marina accommodation

Consultation—Draft Marine Order 44—(Safe containers) 2019

Consultation: alternatives to carrying a float-free EPIRB, for vessels less than 7.5 metres

Consultation—electrical safety on vessels

Consultation for draft AMSA Mandated Practical Assessments

Survey regime consultation

Consultation feedback on the national system transition