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PROTECTION OF THE SEA LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1986 - SECT 20

Duty to report certain incident s involving oil or oily mixture

  (1)   Section   11 of the Principal Act is amended ;

  (a)   by inserting in subsection (1A) " , the Jervis Bay Territory " after " State " (first occurring); and

  (b)   by inserting in subsection (1B) " , the Jervis Bay Territory " after " State " .

  (2)   Section   11 o f the Principal Act is amended ;

  (a)   by omitting from subsection (1) " manner, a prescribed officer of the incident " and substituting:
" manner :

  (a)   where Australia or an external Territory is the nearest coastal State to the place where the incident oc curred - a prescribed officer; or

  (b)   where a foreign country is the nearest coastal State to that place ; the gove rnment of that foreign country,

    of the incident. " ;

  (b)   by omitting from subsection (3) " manner, a prescribed officer of the incident and, if a prescribed officer " and substituting:
" manner ;

  (c)   where Australia or an external Territory is the nearest coastal State to the place where the incident oc curred - a prescribed officer; or

  (d)   where a foreign country is the nearest coastal State to that place ; the gove rnment of that foreign country,

    of the incident, and, if a prescribed officer or a government, as the case may be, " ;

  (c)   by inserting in subsection (6) " or a government " after " officer " (first occurring);

  (d)   by inserting in subsection (6) " or that government, as the case may be " after " officer " (second occurring);

  (e)   by inserting in subsection (6) " or that government, as the case may be, " af ter " officer " (last occurring);

  (f)   by inserting in subsection (7) " or a government " after " officer " (first occurring);

  (g)   by inserting in subsection (7) " or that government, as the case may be " afte r " officer " (second occurring);

  (h)   by inserting in subsection (7) " or that government, as the case may be, " af ter " officer " (last occurring);

  (j)   by inserting in subsection (8) " or a government " after " officer " (wherever occurring); and

  (k)   by inserting in subsection (9) " or a government " after " officer " (wherever occurring) .


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