MARITIME POWERS ACT 2013 - SECT 42 Meaning of chased without interruption

MARITIME POWERS ACT 2013 - SECT 42

  (1)   A vessel is chased without interruption if:

  (a)   at a place where a maritime officer may exercise powers in relation to the vessel without having chased the vessel , a maritime officer requires the person in charge of the vessel to :

  (i)   stop the vessel; or

  (ii)   facilitate boarding of the vessel; and

  (b)   the requirement is not complied with; and

  (c)   the vessel is chased from that place; and

  (d)   the chase is not interrupted.

Note:   For requirement s to facilitate boarding and stop , see section s   53 and 54 .

  ( 2 )   The chase is not interrupted only because:

  (a)   it is continued by another maritime officer; or

  (b)   it is begun, or taken over, by a vessel or aircraft (including a vessel or aircraft of a foreign country ) other than the vessel or aircraft from which the requirement was made; or

  (c)   if the chase is continued by a vessel or aircraft of a foreign country --there is no maritime officer on board the vessel or aircraft; or

  (d)   the vessel is out of sight of any or all of the maritime officers, or officers of a foreign country , involved in the chase; or

  (e)   the vessel cannot be tracked by remote means, including radio, radar, satellite or sonar.