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Navigation Act 1912
386HPermitting or requiring performance of duties by impaired person
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#### 386H Permitting or requiring performance of duties by impaired person
(1) If a person:
(a) permits or requires another person to undertake or to continue duty; and
(b) knows or ought reasonably to know the other person’s capacity to perform those duties is impaired by the influence of alcohol or any other drug;
the first‑mentioned person is guilty of an offence.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 6 months.
(2) It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1) if the person establishes that the permission was given or the requirement made on the grounds of necessity.