55Requirement for sewage certificates

55 Requirement for sewage certificates

(a) a trading ship proceeding on an intra-state voyage;

(2) The master of a ship to which this section applies shall not begin a voyage unless there is in force in respect of the ship a sewage certificate.

Penalty: 100 penalty units or imprisonment for 4 years, or both.

(3) The owner of a ship to which this section applies shall not permit the ship to begin a voyage unless there is in force in respect of the ship a sewage certificate.

(a) if the offender is a natural person—100 penalty units or imprisonment for 4 years, or both; or

(4) The regulations may exempt ships included in a prescribed class of ships from the application of subsection (1), either absolutely or subject to conditions.

(5) The owner of a ship to which this section applies in respect of which a sewage certificate is in force shall cause the certificate to be carried on board the ship.

(6) In this section sewage certificate means—

(a) a Sewage Pollution Prevention Certificate issued under section 52; or

(b) an International Sewage Pollution Prevention Certificate issued under section 267ZG of the Navigation Act; or

(c) a Sewage Pollution Prevention Certificate issued under a law of another State or the Northern Territory and being a certificate of a kind prescribed as acceptable for the purposes of this Division; or

(d) an International Sewage Pollution Prevention Certificate issued to a foreign ship under section 267ZH of the Navigation Act; or

(e) an International Sewage Pollution Prevention Certificate issued to an Australian ship under the law of a country other than Australia giving effect to Regulation 5 of Annex IV.

(7) An offence against subsection (2) or (3), is an indictable offence.

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