NAVIGATION ACT 2012 - SECT 235 Defacing or obliterating marks on a wreck

NAVIGATION ACT 2012 - SECT 235

  (1)   A person must not do an act, or omit to do an act, if the act or omission results, or is likely to result, in the defacement or obliteration of a mark on :

  (a)   a wreck of, or wreck from, a regulated Australian vessel situated:

  ( i )   in the exclusive economic zone of Australia; or

  (ii)   in the territorial sea of Australia; or

  (b)   a wreck of, or wreck from, a foreign vessel situated in the territorial sea of Australia.

Fault - based offence

  (2)   A person commits an offence if the person contravenes subsection   ( 1).

Penalty:   3 00 penalty units.

Civil penalty

  (3)   A person is liable to a civil penalty if the person contravenes subsection   ( 1).

Civil penalty:   9 00 penalty units.