Tasmanian Consolidated Acts

POLLUTION OF WATERS BY OIL AND NOXIOUS SUBSTANCES ACT 1987 - SECT 39A

      (1) Nothing in this Act affects or qualifies the right of an appropriate authority or of any other person to claim or recover damages in respect of the consequences of a discharge of a marine pollutant into State waters, whether from a ship or otherwise.

      (2) In subsection (1),

"appropriate authority" means –

(a) in relation to the area of a port as determined under an Act, the body that is responsible for constructing, improving, managing, regulating or maintaining the port; or

(b) in relation to an area not within a port, the Government department or State authority having jurisdiction over the area.