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NAVIGATION ACT 2012 (NO. 128, 2012) - SECT 35

Person performing duties or functions without a seafarer certificate

             (1)  A person must not perform duties or functions in relation to a regulated Australian vessel if:

                     (a)  the regulations require the person to hold a particular seafarer certificate in order to perform those duties or functions; and

                     (b)  the person does not hold such a seafarer certificate.

             (2)  Subsection (1) does not apply to the performance of duties or functions in exceptional circumstances.

Fault-based offence

             (3)  A person commits an offence if the person contravenes subsection (1).

Penalty:  Imprisonment for 5 years or 300 penalty units, or both.

Note:          A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subsection (2) (see subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code ).

Civil penalty

             (4)  A person is liable to a civil penalty if the person contravenes subsection (1).

Civil penalty:          3,000 penalty units.

             (5)  A person who wishes to rely on subsection (2) in proceedings for a civil penalty order bears an evidential burden in relation to the matters in that subsection.



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