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MARINE SAFETY ACT 2010 (NO. 65 OF 2010) - SECT 24 Duties of port management bodies to ensure safety of marine safety infrastructure operations

MARINE SAFETY ACT 2010 (NO. 65 OF 2010) - SECT 24

Duties of port management bodies to ensure safety of marine safety infrastructure operations

    (1)     A port management body must, so far as is reasonably practicable, ensure the safety of marine safety infrastructure operations carried out by the port management body or supplied to that body.

Penalty:     In the case of a natural person, 1800 penalty units;

In the case of a body corporate, 9000 penalty units.

    (2)     Without limiting subsection (1), a port management body contravenes that subsection if the port management body fails to do any of the following—

        (a)     provide or maintain marine safety infrastructure that is, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe;

        (b)     provide or maintain systems related to navigation and marine safety in port waters that are, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe;

        (c)     control the provision of services related to navigation and marine safety in port waters so that those services are provided in a manner that are, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe;

        (d)     provide, so far as is reasonably practicable, information, instruction, control in matters relating to navigation and marine safety in port waters to enable users of a port under the control of the port management body to undertake vessel operations safely;

        (e)     provide or maintain systems of marine safety work that are, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe;

        (f)     provide, so far as is reasonably practicable, such information, instruction, training or supervision to marine safety workers as is necessary to enable those workers to perform their marine safety work in a way that is safe.

    (3)     An offence against subsection (1) is an indictable offence.

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