Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Subject to this Part, every Australian‑owned ship shall be registered under this Act.
(2) Where an Australian‑owned ship is operated by a foreign resident under a demise charter, the Authority may, by instrument in writing, exempt the ship during the term of the charter from the requirement to be registered.
(3) Where a ship required to be registered is not registered, the owner of the ship is, in respect of each day on which the ship remains unregistered (including the day of a conviction for an offence against this subsection or any subsequent day), guilty of an offence, and, whether or not proceedings are instituted for such an offence, the ship may be detained until registration is effected.
(3A) An offence under subsection (3) is an offence of strict liability.
Note: For strict liability , see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code .
(4) It is not a defence to a prosecution under subsection (3) that the ship required to be registered is registered under the law of a foreign country.
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