Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) This section applies to—
(a) a trading ship proceeding on an intra-state voyage;
(b) an Australian fishing vessel proceeding on a voyage other than an overseas voyage; or
(c) a pleasure vessel.
(2) The master of a ship to which this section applies shall not begin a voyage unless there is in force in respect of the ship a sewage certificate.
Penalty: 100 penalty units or imprisonment for 4 years, or both.
(3) The owner of a ship to which this section applies shall not permit the ship to begin a voyage unless there is in force in respect of the ship a sewage certificate.
Penalty—
(a) if the offender is a natural person—100 penalty units or imprisonment for 4 years, or both; or
(b) if the offender is a body corporate—500 penalty units.
(4) The regulations may exempt ships included in a prescribed class of ships from the application of subsection (1), either absolutely or subject to conditions.
(5) The owner of a ship to which this section applies in respect of which a sewage certificate is in force shall cause the certificate to be carried on board the ship.
Penalty: 10 penalty units.
(6) In this section sewage certificate means—
(a) a Sewage Pollution Prevention Certificate issued under section 52; or
(b) an International Sewage Pollution Prevention Certificate issued under section 267ZG of the Navigation Act; or
(c) a Sewage Pollution Prevention Certificate issued under a law of another State or the Northern Territory and being a certificate of a kind prescribed as acceptable for the purposes of this Division; or
(d) an International Sewage Pollution Prevention Certificate issued to a foreign ship under section 267ZH of the Navigation Act; or
(e) an International Sewage Pollution Prevention Certificate issued to an Australian ship under the law of a country other than Australia giving effect to Regulation 5 of Annex IV.
(7) An offence against subsection (2) or (3), is an indictable offence.