10Wharfage charges

10 Wharfage charges

10 Wharfage charges

(1) A person required to pay a wharfage charge must, at the time the relevant port authority requires, give the relevant port authority the following information—

(a) the name and address of the person making the payment,

(b) the name of the vessel from or on to which the cargo has been or is to be discharged or loaded,

(c) the site at which the discharge or loading of cargo took place or is to take place,

(d) a description of the cargo,

(e) the nature and number of the packages, cases or other receptacles in which the cargo is enclosed, whether or not the receptacles are carried in a container,

(f) the identifying marks and numbers of the receptacles as shown on each bill of lading for the cargo,

(g) if the cargo is carried in a container, the identifying marks and number on the container,

(h) the mass and volume of the cargo in cubic metres or kilolitres,

(i) the number of each bill of lading that has been or is to be issued for the cargo,

(j) other information about the payment of the wharfage charge that the relevant port authority reasonably requests.

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

(2) An officer of a relevant port authority may require the owner of goods in relation to which a wharfage charge is payable—

(a) to give the officer a document that is relevant to the payment of the wharfage charge, or

(b) to make the goods available for inspection by the officer.

(3) The owner of the goods must comply with a requirement under subsection (2) unless the documents or goods, at the time the officer required the document or goods, were not in the owner’s possession or under the owner’s control.

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

(4) In this section—

officer of a relevant port authority means—

(a) if the relevant port authority is the Minister—a delegate of the Minister, or an officer of the delegate, appointed by the Minister or the delegate, as the case requires, for the purposes of this section, or