25Verifying qualifications and documentation

25 Verifying qualifications and documentation

(1) A recruitment service provider must ensure, for each seafarer for whom it provides services, that:

(a) the seafarer is qualified to carry out the duties for which he or she is employed; and

(b) the seafarer holds the documents necessary for the work; and

(c) the seafarer’s work agreements are in accordance with law that applies to them.

(2) A person is liable to a civil penalty if the person contravenes subsection (1).

Civil penalty: 50 penalty units.