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MARITIME TRANSPORT AND OFFSHORE FACILITIES SECURITY ACT 2003 - SECT 40 Failure to comply with confidentiality requirements

MARITIME TRANSPORT AND OFFSHORE FACILITIES SECURITY ACT 2003 - SECT 40

Failure to comply with confidentiality requirements

  (1)   A person (including a person to whom a security direction to a ship is given under section   36 or 36A) commits an offence if:

  (a)   a security direction is given to the person; and

  (b)   the person fails to comply with confidentiality requirements in the direction; and

  (c)   the failure is not due to a disclosure made to a court or a tribunal, or to an authority or person that has the power to require the production of documents or the answering of questions.

Penalty:   20 penalty units.

  (2)   Subsection   ( 1) is an offence of strict liability.