16Transfer to be in accordance with ship-to-ship operations plan

16 Transfer to be in accordance with ship-to-ship operations plan

(1)  The master of an oil tanker to which this Division applies must not undertake a transfer if a transfer is not in accordance with the oil tanker’s ship-to-ship operations plan.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 200 penalty units.

(2)  For the purposes of this section, a ship-to-ship operations plan for an oil tanker is –

(a) if the oil tanker is an Australian ship, a plan –

(i) that is in accordance with the prescribed form; and

(ii) that is written in the working language of the master of, and the officers on board, the oil tanker; or

(b) in any other case, a plan referred to in regulation 41.1 of Annex I to the Convention.