Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ANTARCTIC TREATY (ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION) ACT 1980 - SECT 21

             (1)  A person who does an act mentioned in subsection (1AA) in accordance with a permit must notify the Minister or an authorised officer, in the prescribed form (or, if no form is prescribed, in a form approved by the Minister), that the person has done the act, as soon as practicable after doing the act.

Penalty:  60 penalty units.

       (1AA)  The acts that must be notified under subsection (1) are the following:

                     (a)  an act that has a result mentioned in paragraph 19(1A)(b);

                     (b)  an act mentioned in paragraph 19(1)(b);

                     (c)  an act mentioned in paragraph 19(1)(d).

          (1A)  An offence under subsection (1) is an offence of strict liability.

Note:          For strict liability , see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code .

             (2)  In subsection (1), authorised officer means a person designated by the Minister, by notice published in the Gazette , for the purposes of that subsection.