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Maritime Transport Act 1994

Offences in relation to maritime activity - Disqualification

73: Court may disqualify holder of maritime document or impose conditions on holding of document

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"Courts can take away or add rules to boat work papers if you break the rules"

If you break the rules in sections 64, 65, or 70 of the Maritime Transport Act 1994, a court can punish you. The court can also stop you from having a maritime document, which is a special paper that lets you work on boats. The court can choose to stop you from having all maritime documents or just some of them. The court can also add rules to the maritime documents you already have, and these rules will depend on what you did wrong.

If the court decides to stop you from having a maritime document or adds rules to it, this will only last for up to 12 months. This does not change the powers of the Director, who is in charge of maritime documents, as stated in Part 5. The Director can still make decisions about your maritime documents, even if the court has stopped you from having one or added rules to it.

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Part 6Offences in relation to maritime activity
Disqualification

73Court may disqualify holder of maritime document or impose conditions on holding of document

  1. In addition to any penalty a court may impose under section 64 or section 65 or section 70, the court, on convicting any person of an offence against any of those sections, may by order do all or any of the following, namely,—

  2. disqualify the person convicted from holding or obtaining a maritime document, or a particular maritime document, issued by the Director:
    1. impose on any maritime document held by or issued to the person convicted such restrictions or conditions or both as the court, having regard to the circumstances of the offence, thinks fit,—
        1. for such period not exceeding 12 months as the court thinks fit.

      1. Nothing in subsection (1) shall affect or prevent the exercise by the Director of his or her powers under Part 5.

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