Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CONTROL OF NAVAL WATERS ACT 1918 - SECT 7

(1)

The superintendent of any naval waters may cause to be removed:

(a)

any wreck or other thing that is an obstruction to, or to the approaches to, those naval waters;

(b)

any floating timber that impedes the navigation of those naval waters; or

(c)

any vessel wrecked, laid by, abandoned, sunk, stranded or neglected that is lying within, or on the foreshore of, those naval waters.

(2)

Any vessel removed in pursuance of this section may be laid on some part of the strand or seashore, or in some other place, where it may without injury to any person be placed.