59Enforcement of port notice

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.

Ports Management Act 2015 58 (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.