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Maritime Transport Act 1994

Limitation of liability for maritime claims

87A: Governor-General may notify amended limits

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"The Governor-General can update the rules about how much money people can claim if something goes wrong at sea."

The Governor-General can make an Order in Council to tell you about new limits of liability for maritime claims. These new limits are based on changes to the LLMC Convention, which is an international agreement. The Governor-General will notify you of the new limits and when they start.

If the Governor-General notifies you of these new limits, you can assume they are correct unless someone proves otherwise. This means that in any court case, these limits will be used unless someone shows that they are not correct.

The Governor-General's order is a type of secondary legislation, which means it has to be published in a certain way, as explained in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

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Part 7Limitation of liability for maritime claims

87AGovernor-General may notify amended limits

  1. If the limits of liability specified in Article 6, 7, or 8 of the LLMC Convention (as amended by the LLMC Protocol) are amended in accordance with Article 8 of the LLMC Protocol, the Governor-General, may, by Order in Council, notify—

  2. the new limits; and
    1. the date from which those limits take effect in accordance with Article 8 of the LLMC Protocol.

      1. The limits notified in accordance with subsection (1), may, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be taken in any proceedings to be the current limits.

      2. An order under this section is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

      Notes
      • Section 87A: inserted, on , by section 28 of the Maritime Transport Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 84).
      • Section 87A(3): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).