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Ports Management Act 2015
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59 Enforcement of port notice
(1) A port operator of a designated port may enforce compliance with a
port notice issued by it in any of the following ways:
(a) by directing any person who is contravening the notice to
leave the designated port;
(b) by removing from the port, or moving within the port, any
vehicle that is stopped or parked in contravention of the
notice;
(c) by removing from the port, or moving within the port, anything
placed or located in contravention of the notice;
(d) by carrying out any work at the port that a person has failed to
carry out in contravention of the notice or that is reasonably
required to be carried out to remedy a contravention of the
(1A) A police officer may enforce compliance with a port notice that was
issued to control activities or conduct on the water within a
designated port by:
(a) directing any person who is contravening the notice to leave
the port; or
(b) removing from the port, or moving within the port, anything
placed or located in contravention of the notice.
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(2) The power to remove or move a vehicle or other thing from or within
the port includes the power to place the vehicle or other thing in
secure storage pending its return to its owner.
(3) Before a port enforcement officer exercises, in relation to any
individual, a power to enforce compliance with a port notice, the
officer must produce his or her identity card to that individual.
(4) A port operator of a designated port is entitled to recover as a debt
due and payable to the operator the reasonable costs incurred by
the operator in enforcing compliance with a port notice.
(5) The costs are recoverable from the person whose contravention of
the port notice resulted in them being incurred.
(6) A certificate issued by the port operator certifying as to the
reasonable costs incurred in enforcing compliance with a port
notice is evidence of the matters certified.