Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NAVIGATION ACT 2012 - SECT 90

  (1)   A person must not:

  (a)   force on shore and leave behind at a place (whether with in Australia or outside Australia ) a seafarer of a regulated Australian vessel or a foreign vessel ; or

  (b)   otherwise cause such a seafarer to be left behind at such a place, either onshore or at sea.

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.