New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COMMERCIAL VESSELS ACT 1979 - SECT 19

19 Temporary permits

(2) The Minister may issue a temporary permit for such period and on such conditions as the Minister thinks fit.

(3) Where a prescribed law provides for a vessel or motor to be subjected to inspection and investigation in the nature of a survey within the meaning of Part 3 and, pursuant to that law, the use of a vessel or motor has been authorised, the owner of that vessel or motor shall be deemed to have been issued with a temporary permit, expiring when that authority to use the vessel or motor expires, to use the vessel or motor:

(a) in accordance with that authority while the condition of the vessel or motor complies with any prescribed law that would apply to that vessel or motor when used in accordance with that authority, and

(b) subject to such conditions as may be imposed by the Minister by notice in writing served on the owner of the vessel or motor.

(5) The owner and the master of a vessel are each guilty of an offence against this Act and the owner of a motor is guilty of an offence against this Act:

(a) if the vessel or motor is the subject of a temporary permit issued under subsection (2), or deemed to have been issued under subsection (3), and is used otherwise than in accordance with the authority conferred by the temporary permit, or

(b) if the vessel or motor is the subject of a temporary permit issued under subsection (2) that has been suspended and the temporary permit is not, forthwith after the suspension, returned to the Minister.