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Navigation Act 1912
171Official log‑book
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#### 171 Official log‑book
(1) The master of a ship shall keep an official log‑book in the prescribed form and shall make, or cause to be made, such entries in that log‑book as are prescribed.
Penalty: 30 penalty units.
(4) An entry required by this Act in an official log‑book shall be:
(a) made as soon as possible after the occurrence to which it relates;
(b) made and dated so as to show the date of the occurrence and of the entry respecting it.
Penalty: 30 penalty units.
(5) No person shall, more than 24 hours after the arrival of a ship at its final port of discharge, make in the official log‑book any entry of any occurrence which happened before its arrival.
Penalty: 5 penalty units.
(6) The regulations may make provision for or in relation to the signing of entries in the official log‑book of a ship.
(7) An entry in the official log‑book of a ship is, in all courts, admissible in evidence.