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Navigation Act 1912
280Taking passage for lunatic, or sending lunatic on board
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#### 280 Taking passage for lunatic, or sending lunatic on board
(1) No person shall engage or pay for a passage, on any ship, for a lunatic, or bring or send a lunatic on board ship as a passenger, without informing the owner, master, or agent of the ship that the person is a lunatic.
Penalty: $500.
(2) For the purposes of this section, lunatic includes any person of unsound mind, and any person who, to the knowledge of the person charged with a contravention of this section, is liable to become a lunatic or person of unsound mind.