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CurrentFailure to comply with confidentiality requirements
Part 2Maritime security levels and security directions
Division 4Security directions
40 Failure to comply with confidentiality requirements
(1)
A person (including a person to whom a security direction to a ship is given under section 36) commits an offence if:
(a)
a security direction is given to the person; and
(b)
the person fails to comply with confidentiality requirements in the direction; and
(c)
the failure is not due to a disclosure made to a court or a tribunal, or to an authority or person that has the power to require the production of documents or the answering of questions.
Penalty: 20 penalty units.
(2)
Subsection (1) is an offence of strict liability.
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