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Transport Operations (Marine Pollution) Act 1995
sec.38AShipboard marine pollution emergency plan for noxious liquid substances
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### sec.38A Shipboard marine pollution emergency plan for noxious liquid substances
If a prescribed ship does not have on board a shipboard marine pollution emergency plan for noxious substances, the ship’s owner and master each commit an offence.
Maximum penalty—850 penalty units.
If a corporation commits an offence against this provision, an executive officer of the corporation may be taken, under section 121 , to have also committed the offence.
A regulation may prescribe minimum requirements for a shipboard marine pollution emergency plan for noxious substances.
In this section—
prescribed ship means a ship—
with a gross tonnage of 150 or more; and
certified to carry noxious liquid substances.
shipboard marine pollution emergency plan for noxious substances means a shipboard marine pollution emergency plan for noxious substances complying with the Protection of the Sea (Prevention of Pollution from Ships) Act 1983 (Cwlth) , section 22A .
s 38A ins 2008 No. 67 s 240 ; 2013 No. 51 s 229 sch 1
(sec.38A-ssec.1) If a prescribed ship does not have on board a shipboard marine pollution emergency plan for noxious substances, the ship’s owner and master each commit an offence. Maximum penalty—850 penalty units. If a corporation commits an offence against this provision, an executive officer of the corporation may be taken, under section 121 , to have also committed the offence.
(sec.38A-ssec.2) A regulation may prescribe minimum requirements for a shipboard marine pollution emergency plan for noxious substances.
(sec.38A-ssec.3) In this section— prescribed ship means a ship— with a gross tonnage of 150 or more; and certified to carry noxious liquid substances. shipboard marine pollution emergency plan for noxious substances means a shipboard marine pollution emergency plan for noxious substances complying with the Protection of the Sea (Prevention of Pollution from Ships) Act 1983 (Cwlth) , section 22A .
- (a) with a gross tonnage of 150 or more; and
- (b) certified to carry noxious liquid substances.