New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MARINE POLLUTION ACT 1987 - SECT 21

21 Cargo record book

(1) This section applies to a trading ship proceeding on an intra-state voyage that carries liquid substances in bulk.

(2) A cargo record book shall be carried in every ship to which this section applies.

(3) A cargo record book shall be in accordance with the prescribed form with provision made for a signature, in accordance with subsection (7), in relation to each entry made in it and for a signature, in accordance with subsection (8), on each page of it.

(4) Where a ship to which this section applies does not carry a cargo record book as required by this section, the master and the owner of the ship are each guilty of an offence punishable, upon conviction, by a fine not exceeding:

(a) if the offender is a natural person-200 penalty units, or

(b) if the offender is a body corporate-1 000 penalty units.

(5) Whenever a prescribed operation or occurrence is carried out or occurs in, or in relation to, a ship to which this section applies, the master of the ship shall make, without delay, appropriate entries in, or cause appropriate entries to be made without delay in, the ship’s cargo record book, being entries in accordance with subsection (7).

Penalty: 200 penalty units.

(6) Where an inspector has inspected a ship to which this section applies, the inspector shall make, without delay, appropriate entries in the ship’s cargo record book in accordance with subsection (7).

(7) An entry in a ship’s cargo record book:

(a) shall be made in the English language, and

(b) in the case of an entry made in relation to a prescribed operation, shall be signed by the officer or other person in charge of the operation.

(8) Where a page of a ship’s cargo record book is completed, the master of the ship shall, without delay, sign the page.

Penalty: 200 penalty units.