Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The master of a boat on which, or by the use of which, an offence against this Act (in this section referred to as the primary offence ) is committed commits an offence against this section and is punishable, on conviction, as if it were the primary offence.
(2) A person may be convicted of an offence against this section whether or not the identity of the person who committed the primary offence appears, or has appeared, from the evidence in the proceedings in respect of the offence against this section or in any other proceedings, but a person shall not be convicted both of an offence against this section and of the primary offence.
(3) The provisions of section 52 apply where a person is convicted of an offence against this section in like manner as they would apply if that person had been convicted of the primary offence.