HISTORIC SHIPWRECKS ACT 1981 - SECT 13
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: $20 000 or imprisonment for 4 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.