Overall purpose
5 Overall purpose
(1) The overall purpose of this Act is to protect the Territory's marine and coastal environment by minimising intentional and negligent discharges of ship-sourced pollutants into coastal waters.
(2) This purpose is to be achieved primarily by giving effect to relevant provisions of the following annexes of MARPOL:
Annex I (which deals with pollution by oil);
(b) Annex II (which deals with pollution by noxious liquid substances in bulk);
(c) Annex III (which deals with pollution by harmful substances in packaged form);
Annex V (which deals with pollution by garbage).
The purpose is also to be achieved by:
(a) providing an approach to protecting the Territory's marine and coastal environment from ship-sourced pollutants complementary to the approach of the Commonwealth and the States of the Commonwealth;
making provision about the discharge of sewage from ships;
(c) enabling shipping casualties that are polluting, or threatening to pollute, coastal waters, to be dealt with; and
(d) imposing severe penalties on persons who pollute the Territory's marine and coastal environment in contravention of this Act.
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