Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A person commits an offence if:
(a) a person is subject to a direction under this Act; and
(b) the person engages in conduct; and
(c) the person's conduct breaches the direction.
Penalty: 2,000 penalty units or imprisonment for 5 years, or both.
(4) It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against subsection ( 1) if it is proved:
(a) that the breach of the direction resulted from the need to save life at sea; or
(b) that compliance with the direction was not possible; or
(c) if the direction requires an act or thing to be done before a particular time--that compliance with the direction was not possible before that time and the direction was complied with as soon as possible after that time.
(5) A reference in this section to a direction under this Act shall, in the case of a direction that has been varied by a further direction issued under section 15, be construed as a reference to the direction as so varied by that further direction.