Loading stress information
22 Loading stress information
The master or the owner of a vessel must not take the vessel to sea if loading stress information mentioned in paragraph (1) of Regulation 10 of Annex I to the Load Lines Convention is not on board the vessel.
Penalty: 50 penalty units.
The loading stress information must be approved as follows:
for a regulated Australian vessel — by an issuing body; and
for a foreign vessel — by the Administration of the country where the vessel is registered.
An offence against subsection (1) is a strict liability offence.
A person is liable to a civil penalty if the person contravenes subsection (1).
Civil penalty: 50 penalty units.
Note 1 Stability information requirements are also mentioned in regulation 5 of Chapter II-1 of SOLAS for vessels to which SOLAS applies.
Note 2 Loading stress information will require re-approval if the vessel undergoes structural modification.
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