TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT 114 Shipowners may be required to be represented by agent and give address for service.

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT 114

114. (1) The Minister may, by notice in writing to a shipowner served as
prescribed, request the shipowner to comply with the provisions of this
section, and, where such a request has been made, the provisions of
sub-sections (2) to (7) apply.

(2) The shipowner (not being a natural person resident in Australia) shall, at
all times after the expiration of 14 days from the date of service of the
notice, be represented for the purposes of this Part by a person (not being a
body corporate) resident in Australia and appointed by the shipowner as the
agent of the shipowner for the purposes of this Part.

(3) The appointment shall not be deemed to be duly made or revoked until the
shipowner has given notice in writing of the appointment or revocation to the
Minister, specifying the name, and, in the case of an appointment, the place
of residence, of the agent.

(4) Everything done by the agent in his representative capacity shall, for the
purposes of this Part, be deemed to have been done by the shipowner, but not
so as to affect any liability of the agent under this Part.

(5) The shipowner shall, at all times after the expiration of 14 days from the
date of service of the notice, have an address in Australia for service for
the purposes of this Part.

(6) The address does not become the address for service of the shipowner until
the shipowner has given notice in writing of the address to the Minister, and
an address so notified continues to be the address for service of the
shipowner until another address has been so notified.

(7) A document or notice required or permitted to be served on, or given to,
the shipowner under or for the purposes of this Part, including process of the
Court, may, notwithstanding any other law, be served or given by leaving it at
his address for service or by serving it by registered post on the shipowner
at that address.

(8) Where a shipowner has given notice in writing to the Minister of the
appointment of an agent of the shipowner, or of an address in Australia of the
shipowner for service, for the purposes of this Part, the notice shall, for
the purposes of sub-section (4) or (7), as the case requires, be deemed to
have been given in accordance with a request made by the Minister in pursuance
of sub-section (1).

(9) Failure to comply with this section is not an offence but entails the
consequences specified in this Part.