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MARINE POLLUTION ACT 2012 - SECT 71

Discharge of prescribed marine pollutant from apparatus on a place on land used in transfer operation prohibited

71 Discharge of prescribed marine pollutant from apparatus on a place on land used in transfer operation prohibited

(1) A person must not deliberately, recklessly or negligently cause a prescribed marine pollutant to be discharged from an apparatus on a place on land in, or in connection with, a transfer operation.
: Maximum penalty--
(a) in the case of an individual--$500,000, or
(b) in the case of a corporation--$10,000,000.
(2) Each of the prescribed persons in relation to a transfer operation is guilty of an offence if any prescribed marine pollutant is discharged from any apparatus on a place on land used in, or in connection with, a transfer operation, whether or not it is being so used.
: Maximum penalty--
(a) in the case of an individual--$500,000, or
(b) in the case of a corporation--$10,000,000.
(3) In this section--

"prescribed person" means any of the following--
(a) the occupier of the land,
(b) the owner of the apparatus,
(c) the person in charge of the apparatus.



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