Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

HISTORIC SHIPWRECKS ACT 1976 - SECT 14

             (1)  The regulations may make provision:

                     (a)  for and in relation to prohibiting or restricting:

                              (i)  the bringing into a protected zone of equipment constructed or adapted for the purpose of diving, salvage or recovery operations, or of any explosives, instruments or tools the use of which would be likely to damage or interfere with a historic shipwreck or a historic relic situated within that protected zone;

                             (ii)  the use within a protected zone of any such equipment, explosives, instruments or tools;

                            (iii)  causing a ship carrying any such equipment, explosives, instruments or tools to enter, or remain within, a protected zone;

                            (iv)  trawling, or diving or other underwater activity, within a protected zone; or

                             (v)  the mooring or use of ships within a protected zone; and

                     (b)  prescribing penalties, not exceeding a fine of $1,000 or imprisonment for 1 year, or both, for any contravention of a provision of any regulations made for the purposes of paragraph (a).

             (2)  The provision that may be made by regulations made for the purposes of this section for or in relation to restricting the doing of an act includes a provision prohibiting the doing of that act except in accordance with a permit.

             (3)  Regulations made for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) may be of general application or may make different provision in relation to different protected zones.

             (4)  In this section, ship includes a hovercraft and any similar craft.