71Interference with navigation

71 Interference with navigation

(1)  MAST, an authorised person or a police officer, by notice, may prohibit –

(a) all, or any class or description of, navigation in a specified area at a specified time; or

(b) any act interfering with navigation in that area.

(2)  A person must not contravene a notice under subregulation (1) .

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 50 penalty units.

(3)  MAST, by notice, may declare a specified area surrounding any vessel navigating, moored or at anchor to be a prohibited area for other vessels or persons.

(4)  A person must comply with a declaration under subregulation (3) in respect of a specified area.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 50 penalty units.

(5)  MAST, an authorised person or a police officer may –

(a) order the master of a vessel or a person to leave a prohibited area; and

(b) intercept and remove to a place of safety any vessel in a prohibited area, or apprehend and remove any person in a prohibited area to a place of safety.

(6)  A person must comply with an order under subregulation (5) .

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 50 penalty units.

(7)  A notice under this regulation is to be published in a newspaper circulating in the area in which the specified area referred to in subregulation (1) , or a prohibited area, is located.

(8)  In this regulation –

prohibited area means an area declared to be a prohibited area under subregulation (3) .