Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PROTECTION OF THE SEA (PREVENTION OF POLLUTION FROM SHIPS) ACT 1983 - SECT 21A

  (1)   The master and the owner of an Australian ship each commit an offence if:

  (a)   a chemical tanker construction certificate under regulations made for the purposes of section   130 of the Navigation Act 2012 is in force in respect of the ship; and

  (b)   the ship does not have on board a copy of the Procedures and Arrangements Manual written in English.

Penalty:   60 penalty units.

  (2)   The master and the owner of a foreign ship each commit an offence if:

  (a)   a chemical tanker construction certificate under regulations made for the purposes of section   130 of the Navigation Act 2012 is in force in respect of the ship; and

  (b)   the ship does not have on board:

  (i)   a copy of the Procedures and Arrangements Manual written in the official language, or one of the official languages, of the country whose flag the ship is entitled to fly; and

  (ii)   if none of those languages is English, Spanish or French--a translation of the Procedures and Arrangements Manual into one of those languages.

Penalty:   60 penalty units.

  (3)   An offence against subsection   (1) or (2) is an offence of strict liability.

Note:   For strict liability , see section   6.1 of the Criminal Code .