Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) There must be entered in the General Register or International Register, in respect of every ship registered in that register, the name and address of the person who is to be the registered agent of the ship, being a person who is, for the time being:
(a) in the case of a ship referred to in paragraph 14(c) or 15B(c)--the operator or one of the operators of the ship;
(b) in the case of a ship referred to in paragraph 14(d) or 15B(d)--the charterer or one of the charterers of the ship;
(c) in the case of a ship without a managing owner (other than a ship referred to in paragraph (a) or (b))--the person or one of the persons who is a ship's agent in respect of the ship or a person having the management of the ship; or
(d) in any other case--the managing owner or one of the managing owners;
and, upon the name and address of that person being so entered, the person shall be, for all purposes of this Act, the registered agent of that ship.
(1A) Where a ship is registered pursuant to an application under section 15 or 15C, the name and address of the first person to be the registered agent of the ship must be entered in the relevant register forthwith after the registration of the ship.
(2) Where a change occurs in the person, or the address of the person, referred to in subsection (1) in relation to a registered ship:
(a) in the case of a ship to which paragraph (1)(a) or (b) applies--the person whose name appears in the relevant register; or
(b) in any other case--the owner of the ship;
shall, unless a notice of the change has already been lodged under this subsection, lodge with the Registrar, within 14 days after the change occurs, a notice of the change containing such information as is prescribed.
(2A) An offence based on subsection (2) is an offence of strict liability.
Note: For strict liability , see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code .
(3) The references in subsections (1), (1A) and (2) to the address of a person shall be read as references to:
(a) in a case where the person is a natural person:
(i) the address of the place in Australia at which the person ordinarily resides; or
(ii) if there is no place in Australia at which the person ordinarily resides--the address in Australia to which all communications to that person in pursuance of a provision of this Act should be sent; or
(b) in a case where the person is a body corporate--the address of the principal place of business in Australia of the body corporate.