16Offences with respect to river works—the Act, s 400

16 Offences with respect to river works—the Act, s 400

16 Offences with respect to river works—the Act, s 400

(1) For the Act, section 400(1)(f)(i), a person must not—

(a) without the oral or written permission of an authorised officer, board or disembark from a vessel that is in a lock, or

(b) attempt to navigate a vessel into or through a lock after the lock-keeper at the lock has refused permission for the vessel to enter the lock.

Maximum penalty—10 penalty units.

(2) For the Act, section 400(1)(f)(ii), a person must not—

(a) without the oral or written permission of an authorised officer, enter onto a river work unless the person is an employee of a relevant Authority and is exercising the person’s functions as an employee, or

(b) fail to leave a river work immediately after being asked to do so by an authorised officer, or

(c) do anything that causes ballast, rock, stone or other matter to fall—

(i) into a lock, or

(ii) onto the walls of a lock, or

(iii) into a place where it is likely to fall or be carried into a lock, or

(d) without the oral or written permission of an authorised officer, interfere with a valve, a gate, machinery or another thing associated with a river work, or

(e) ride, drive, stand or park a vehicle on a river work, except—

(i) on a formed roadway or defined vehicular track open to the public, or

(ii) in accordance with the written permission of a relevant Authority or the oral or written permission of an authorised officer, or

(iii) at the direction of an authorised officer, or

(iv) in accordance with a sign erected by or under the authority of a relevant Authority, or

(f) fish or swim in the Murray River within 150m of a river work.

Maximum penalty—10 penalty units.

(3) For subsection (2)(e)(i), a formed roadway or defined vehicular track is taken to be open to the public unless—