Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

MARITIME TRANSPORT AND OFFSHORE FACILITIES SECURITY ACT 2003 - SECT 122

  (1)   A person commits an offence if:

  (a)   the person is on board a regulated Australian ship or a ship regulated as an offshore facility; and

  (b)   the person:

  (i)   carries a weapon; or

  (ii)   otherwise has in his or her possession a weapon that is located at a place that is accessible to the person; and

  (c)   the person is not a law enforcement officer; and

  (d)   the carriage or possession of the weapon is not authorised by the regulations or permitted in writing by the Secretary; and

  (e)   the weapon is not under the control of the master of the ship.

Penalty:   100 penalty units.

  (2)   Subsection   (1) is an offence of strict liability.