Commonwealth Numbered Acts

WHALE PROTECTION ACT 1980 No. 92 of 1980 - SECT 32

32. (1) The person in charge of a vessel or aircraft, or any plant or
equipment, used or otherwise involved in the commission of an offence against
this Act (in this section referred to as the "primary offence") is guilty of
an offence against this section punishable upon 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 26 relating to forfeiture 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.