Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

MARINE POLLUTION ACT - SECT 8

    (1)     An agent of a ship owner is the person who, for the owner:

        (a)     makes an arrangement for berthing the ship, or loading or unloading cargo on or from the ship, in the Territory; or

        (b)     makes an arrangement for the ship to load bunkers or stores in the Territory.

    (2)     The person remains the ship owner's agent until:

        (a)     the person, or the ship owner, gives the Chief Executive Officer written notice that the person is no longer the ship's agent;

        (b)     someone else in the Territory is appointed by the ship owner as agent; or

        (c)     the ship is outside coastal waters.

    (3)     If subsection (2)(a) and (b) do not apply, the person again becomes the ship owner's agent when the ship returns to coastal waters.