Marking requirements for regulated Australian vessels
28 Marking requirements for regulated Australian vessels
The master and owner of a regulated Australian vessel to which the Load Lines Convention applies, or would apply if engaged on an international voyage, must not take it to sea if:
the vessel is not marked, in the position specified in its Load Line Certificate, with a deck line and load line; and
for a passenger vessel to which SOLAS applies — a subdivision load line is not marked in accordance with regulation 18 of Chapter II-1 of SOLAS; and
the vessel is not marked with draft marks in accordance with paragraph 6 of regulation 5 of Chapter II-1 of SOLAS.
Penalty: 50 penalty units.
An offence against subsection (1) is a strict liability offence.
A person is liable to a civil penalty if the person contravenes subsection (1).
Penalty: 50 penalty units.
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