Queensland Numbered Acts

TRANSPORT LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2008 No. 31 - SECT 27

After section 48--

insert--

'(1) The owner or master of a section 48A ship must not operate the ship in nil discharge waters for treated sewage or untreated sewage from a section 48A ship, unless the owner or master complies with the requirements prescribed under a regulation in relation to the holding or treating of sewage on the ship.

Maximum penalty--850 penalty units.

'(2) The nil discharge waters for treated sewage or untreated sewage from a section 48A ship are the coastal waters prescribed under a regulation for this section.

'(3) In this section--

fixed toilet, on a ship, means a toilet fixed permanently on board the ship.

operate, a ship, includes anchor, berth or moor the ship.

section 48A ship means a ship--

(a) that is not a declared ship under section 49; and

(b) has a fixed toilet.'.