Queensland Consolidated Acts

TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (MARINE POLLUTION) ACT 1995 - SECT 84

84 Power to detain ship

(1) An authorised officer for the State may detain a ship if the officer has clear grounds for believing a discharge offence has happened because of acts or omissions in relation to the ship in coastal waters.

Note—

See Article 220 (2) of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982.

(2) The authorised officer may, after detaining a ship, order the ship’s master to move the ship to a reasonable stated place.

(3) The ship’s master must comply with the order, unless the master has a reasonable excuse.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—3,500 penalty units.

(4) The authorised officer may, acting with any necessary and reasonable help and force, escort the ship to the place.

(5) If, before the ship is released from detention, the ship leaves the place, the ship’s owner and master each commit an offence, unless there was a reasonable excuse for the ship leaving the place.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—3,500 penalty units.

(6) In this section—

"discharge offence" means a discharge offence within the meaning of part 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 or 9 .