19Requirements for owners of vessels who use seafarer recruitment and placement services

19 Requirements for owners of vessels who use seafarer recruitment and placement services

(1) For subsection 54(5) of the Navigation Act, a work agreement may be made by the owner of a regulated Australian vessel with a seafarer engaged through a seafarer recruitment and placement service in a country that has not ratified the Maritime Labour Convention only if the service complies with the requirements mentioned in paragraphs (b) to (f) of Schedule 1, other than subparagraph (f)(v) of Schedule 1, as if the service were registered under subsection 16(2).

(3) A person is liable to a civil penalty if the person contravenes subsections (1).