South Australian Consolidated Acts

HISTORIC SHIPWRECKS ACT 1981 - SECT 13

13—Prohibition of certain action in relation to historic shipwrecks and relics

        (1)         Except in accordance with a permit, a person must not—

            (a)         damage or destroy a historic shipwreck or a historic relic; or

            (b)         interfere with a historic shipwreck or a historic relic; or

            (c)         dispose of a historic shipwreck or a historic relic; or

            (d)         remove a historic shipwreck or a historic relic from the territorial waters of the State.

Maximum penalty: $5 000 or imprisonment for 5 years, or both.

        (2)         A reference in subsection (1) to the removal of a historic shipwreck or a historic relic from the territorial waters of the State includes a reference to the removal of a historic shipwreck or a historic relic from the surface or subsoil of land submerged by those waters or from a reef in those waters.

        (4)         In this section—

"historic shipwreck" includes a part of a historic shipwreck.