Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NAVIGATION ACT 2012 - SECT 49

  (1)   A person contravenes this subsection if :

  (a)   the person is the owner or master of a regulated Australian vessel; and

  (b)   t he vessel is altered in such a way as to affect the maritime labour certificates that vessel is required to have; and

  (c)   AMSA , and each issuing body that has issued a maritime labour certificate for the vessel , are not info rmed of the alterations within the period prescribed by the regulations .

Fault - based offence

  (2)   A person commits an offence if the person contravenes subsection   ( 1).

Penalty:   Imprisonment for 12 months or 60 penalty units, or both.

Civil penalty

  (3)   A person is liable to a civil penalty if the person contravenes subsection   ( 1).

Civil penalty:   600 penalty units.