Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NAVIGATION ACT 2012 - SECT 115

  (1)   A person contravenes this subsection if:

  (a)   the person carries dangerous goods on board, or causes or permits dangerous goods to be placed for carriage on board, a regulated Australian vessel or a foreign vessel; and

  (b)   the outside of the package containing the goods is not distinctly marked with a correct description of the goods; and

  (c)   if the vessel is a foreign vessel--at the time when the goods are carried or placed on board the vessel, the vessel is:

  (i)   in an Australian port; or

  (ii)   entering or leaving an Australian port; or

  (iii)   in the internal waters of Australia; or

  (iv)   in the territorial sea of Australia, other than in the course of innocent passage.

Fault - based offence

  (2)   A person commits an offence if the person contravenes subsection   (1).

Penalty:   Imprisonment for 12 months or 60 penalty units, or both.

Civil penalty

  (3)   A person is liable to a civil penalty if the person contravenes subsection   (1).

Civil penalty:   600 penalty units.