26FAGarbage record book

26FA Garbage record book

(1) This section applies to an Australian ship that: (a) has a gross tonnage of 400 or more; or (b) is certified to carry 15 persons or more and is engaged on an overseas voyage. (2) Every ship to which this section applies must carry a garbage record book as required by the regulations. (3) A garbage record book must be in accordance with the appropriate prescribed form with provision made for a signature, in accordance with subsection (8), in relation to each entry made in it and for a signature, in accordance with subsection (7), in relation to each page of it. (4) If a ship does not carry a garbage record book as required by this section, the master and the owner of the ship each commit an offence punishable, upon conviction, by a fine of not more than 50 penalty units. (5) An offence against subsection (4) is an offence of strict liability. (6) If a prescribed operation or prescribed occurrence is carried out or occurs in, or in relation to, a ship, the master of the ship must make, without delay, appropriate entries in accordance with subsection (8) in the ship’s garbage record book, or cause appropriate entries in accordance with that subsection to be made, as soon as is practicable in the circumstances, in that book.

Penalty: 200 penalty units.

(7) If a page of a ship’s garbage record book is completed, the master of the ship must, as soon as is practicable in the circumstances, sign the page.

Penalty: 50 penalty units.

(8) An entry in a ship’s garbage record book: (a) must be made in the English language; and (b) if the entry is made in relation to a prescribed operation—must be signed by the officer or other person in charge of the operation.