177Effect of payment of penalty etc.

177 Effect of payment of penalty etc. If by force of section 176 more than one person may be guilty of an offence involving a vessel and the full amount of any monetary penalty is paid (and not refunded) and any other necessary consequence is suffered by any one of them in relation to the offence, no further penalty or consequence may be imposed on or recovered from that person or any other person in relation to the offence.