ENDANGERED SPECIES PROTECTION ACT 1992 No. 194 of 1992 - SECT 128 Power to pursue persons and vessels

ENDANGERED SPECIES PROTECTION ACT 1992 No. 194 of 1992 - SECT 128

128.(1) An officer may exercise, in relation to foreign vessels and foreign
nationals in any place, but not within the territorial sea of another country,
a power conferred on the officer under section 122 if:

   (a)  one or more officers (whether or not including the officer exercising
        the power) have pursued the person or vessel from a place within one
        of the areas referred to in subsection 119(2) to such a place; and

   (b)  the pursuit was not terminated or interrupted at any time before the
        officer concerned arrived at such a place with a view to exercising
        that power.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), a pursuit of a person or vessel is
not taken to be terminated or interrupted only because the officer or officers
concerned lose sight of the person or vessel.

(3) A reference in subsection (2) to losing sight of a person or vessel
includes a reference to losing output from a radar or other sensing device.