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Navigation Act 2012
92Expenses of returning foreign seafarers left behind
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#### 92 Expenses of returning foreign seafarers left behind
If:
(a) a seafarer of a foreign vessel is left behind at an Australian port or dies in Australia; and
(b) the Commonwealth incurs expense in sending the seafarer, the seafarer’s body or any property of the seafarer outside Australia;
the Commonwealth may recover the amount of those expenses from the owner, agent or master of the vessel in an eligible court as a debt due and payable by the owner, agent or master to the Commonwealth.