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MARINE POLLUTION ACT 2012 - SECT 83

Several liability

83 Several liability

If a prescribed marine pollutant is discharged into State waters from 2 or more ships in, or in connection with, a transfer operation, and it is not reasonably practicable to identify the pollutant that has discharged from a particular ship, all of the pollutant discharged is taken, for the purposes of this Part, to have been discharged from each of those ships.



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