Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

MARITIME POWERS ACT 2013 - SECT 16

  (1)   For the purposes of authorising the exercise of maritime powers in relation to a vessel, installation, aircraft, protected land area or isolated person , each of the following is an authorising officer :

  (a)   the most senior maritime officer who is in a position to exercise any of the maritime powers in person;

  (b)   the most senior member or special member of the Australian Federal Police who is in a position to exercise any of the maritime powers in person;

  (c)   the most senior maritime officer on duty in a duly established operations room;

  (d)   the person in command of a Commonwealth ship or Commonwealth aircraft from which the exercise of powers is to be directed or coordinated;

  (e)   a person appointed in writing by the Minister.

Limited appointments

  (2)   The Minister may appoint a person under paragraph   ( 1)(e) as an authorising officer:

  (a)   for the purposes of authorising the exercise of powers in relation to one or more of the following only:

  (i)   a specified law ;

  (ii)   a sp ecified international agreement or international decision ; and

  (b)   subject to any other conditions specified in the appointment.

Purported authorisations

  (3)   A purported authorisation given by a person who reasonably believed that he or she was an author is ing officer has effect as if it were an authorisation.