Jervis Bay Territory Marine Safety Ordinance 2016
104Obligation to preserve evidence
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104 Obligation to preserve evidence
(1) A person commits an offence if: (a) the person is: (i) the owner or the master of a vessel involved in a marine accident; or (ii) otherwise concerned in a marine accident; and (b) the person has reason to believe that evidence relating to the marine accident may be required for an investigation into the marine accident; and (c) the person fails to take all reasonable measures to preserve the evidence.
Penalty: 50 penalty units.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), evidence relating to the marine accident may include nautical charts, log books and other documents.
Note: Under section 2B of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 a document includes anything from which sounds, images or writings can be reproduced with or without the aid of anything else.