MARITIME POWERS ACT 2013 (NO. 15, 2013) - SECT 64 Securing and marking things
MARITIME POWERS ACT 2013 (NO. 15, 2013) - SECT 64
Securing and marking things(1) A maritime officer may do one or more of the following:
(a) seal a thing;
(b) mark a thing;
(c) lock up, or otherwise secure a thing (including in the hold of a vessel or aircraft);
(d) if the thing is a live plant:
(i) mark or label a cage or container in which the plant is kept or in which the plant is growing; or
(ii) place a label or tag on the plant;
(e) if the thing is a live animal:
(i) implant a scannable device in the animal; or
(ii) place a band on any part of the animal; or
(iii) place (whether by piercing or otherwise) a tag or ring on any part of the animal; or
(iv) mark or label a cage or container within which the animal is kept.
Offences
(2) A person commits an offence if:
(a) in the exercise of powers in relation to a vessel, installation, aircraft or land, a maritime officer seals, marks, labels, locks up or secures a thing; and
(b) the continuous exercise of those powers has not ceased; and
(c) the person:
(i) breaks or defaces the seal; or
(ii) erases or defaces the mark or label; or
(iii) breaks or unlocks the lock or otherwise causes the thing to be unsecured; and
(d) the person does so without the consent of a maritime officer.
Penalty: 50 penalty units.
Note: The continuous exercise of powers does not end only because there is a period of time between the exercise of one or more of those powers: see section 11.
(3) A person commits an offence if:
(a) in the exercise of powers in relation to a vessel, installation, aircraft or land, a maritime officer:
(i) implants a scannable device in an animal; or
(ii) places a band on any part of an animal; or
(iii) places (whether by piercing or otherwise) a tag or ring on any part of an animal; and
(b) the continuous exercise of those powers has not ceased; and
(c) the person removes, or interferes with, the implant, band, tag or ring; and
(d) the person does so without the consent of a maritime officer.
Penalty: 50 penalty units.
Note: The continuous exercise of powers does not end only because there is a period of time between the exercise of one or more of those powers: see section 11.