South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current Acts46—Interference with ships and boats without consent
(1) A person who,
without lawful authority to do so, and knowing that no such lawful authority
exists, casts away or uses any boat or uses any equipment or article in, upon,
or forming part of a boat is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty: $5 000 or imprisonment for 1 year.
(2) Upon convicting a
person for an offence against this section, the court may order the convicted
person to pay to the owner of the boat, equipment or article in respect of
which the offence was committed such sum as the court thinks just by way of
compensation for the loss caused to the owner by the convicted person.
(3) In this
section—
"boat" includes canoe, dinghy, yacht, raft, pontoon, ship and other similar
vessel.