Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION (SEA DUMPING) ACT 1981 - SECT 8

             (1)  This Act binds the Crown in right of the Commonwealth, of each of the States, of the Northern Territory and of Norfolk Island but nothing in this Act renders the Commonwealth, a State, the Northern Territory or the Administration of Norfolk Island liable to be prosecuted for an offence.

             (2)  Subsection (1) does not affect any liability of a person in charge of a vessel, aircraft or platform of which the Commonwealth, a State, the Northern Territory or the Administration of Norfolk Island is the owner to be prosecuted for an offence.