Queensland Consolidated Acts

TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (MARINE POLLUTION) ACT 1995 - SECT 30

30 Shipboard oil pollution emergency plan

(1) If a ship does not have on board a shipboard oil pollution emergency plan, the ship’s owner and master each commit an offence.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—850 penalty units.

Note—

If a corporation commits an offence against this provision, an executive officer of the corporation may be taken, under section 121 , to have also committed the offence.

(2) In this section—

"ship" means a ship—

(a) more than 24m in length overall if the ship is carrying—

(i) oil as cargo; or

(ii) a vehicle that is carrying more than 400L of oil as cargo; or

(b) otherwise, more than 35m in length overall.