Maritime Transport Act 1994

Offences in relation to maritime activity - Offences in relation to maritime document

68: Acting without necessary maritime document

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"Sailing without the right papers is against the law"

If you operate, maintain, or service a ship or maritime product without the right documents, you commit an offence. You also commit an offence if you do any other act in respect of a ship or maritime product without the right documents. The right documents are called maritime documents and they must be current.

If you know that a maritime document is required for a ship or product, but you do not have it, you commit an offence if you operate, maintain, or service the ship or product, or do any other act in respect of it.

If you commit one of these offences, you can be liable on conviction to imprisonment or a fine, and you may also have to pay an additional penalty under section 409.

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Part 6Offences in relation to maritime activity
Offences in relation to maritime document

68Acting without necessary maritime document

  1. Every person commits an offence who—

  2. operates, maintains, or services; or
    1. does any other act in respect of—
      1. any ship or maritime product, without holding the appropriate current maritime document.

      2. Every person commits an offence who—

      3. operates, maintains, or services; or
        1. does any other act in respect of—
          1. any ship or maritime product knowing that a current maritime document is required to be held in respect of that ship or product before that act may lawfully be done and knowing that the appropriate document is not held.

          2. Every person who commits an offence against subsection (1) or subsection (2) is liable on conviction,—

          3. in the case of an individual, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or a fine not exceeding $10,000:
            1. in the case of a body corporate, to a fine not exceeding $100,000:
              1. in any case, to an additional penalty under section 409.
                1. For the purposes of this section,—

                2. a maritime document is not a current maritime document if it is for the time being suspended under this Act:
                  1. a maritime document is not a current maritime document in relation to an act if the endorsement that is required to authorise that act is for the time being suspended under this Act.
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                    Notes
                    • Section 68(3): amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).
                    • Section 68(4): added, on , by section 10 of the Maritime Transport Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 68).