Victorian Numbered Acts

MARINE (DOMESTIC COMMERCIAL VESSEL NATIONAL LAW APPLICATION) ACT 2013 (NO. 36 OF 2013) - SECT 34

For section 29 of the Marine Safety Act 2010 substitute —

    "     29     Duties of pilotage service providers to owners of domestic commercial vessels

    (1)     A person who is not a marine safety worker and who supplies pilotage services to an owner of a domestic commercial vessel must, so far as is reasonable practicable, ensure the safety of those services.

Penalty:     In the case of a natural person, 1800 penalty units;

In the case of a body corporate, 9000 penalty units.

    (2)     Without limiting subsection (1), a person contravenes that subsection if—

        (a)     the person operates, or causes or allows to be operated, the domestic commercial vessel and that vessel is an unsafe vessel; or

        (b)     the domestic commercial vessel is, while in State waters, so loaded that the load line of the vessel is submerged.

    (3)     An offence against subsection (1) is an indictable offence.".