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#### 22 Directions about activities that affect navigation
22 Directions about activities that affect navigation
> > (1) Transport for NSW may issue a direction prohibiting or regulating any specified activity in or on navigable waters that affects navigation, or has the potential to affect navigation, whether or not it involves a vessel.
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> > (2) A direction may be issued—
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> > > (a) in a written document served on the person to whom it applies, or
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> > > (b) by notice published in the Gazette.
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> > (3) If a direction has been issued that, for reasons of safety associated with an activity, excludes persons or vessels not carrying out that activity from waters while that activity is being carried out, a person who carries out the relevant activity must pay the appropriate market rate for that use of the waters, as determined by Transport for NSW.
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> > (4) A person to whom a direction has been issued or applies must comply with such a direction.
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> > Maximum penalty (subclause (4)): 100 penalty units.