Marine Pollution Act 1999

(1) A ship's master must, without delay, notify an authorised officer of a reportable incident in the way prescribed in the Regulations.

Maximum penalty: 1 000 penalty units.

(2) If the ship's master cannot comply with subsection (1), the ship's owner or the owner's agent must notify, without delay, an authorised officer of the reportable incident in the way prescribed in the Regulations, unless the owner or owner's agent has a reasonable excuse.

Maximum penalty: 1 000 penalty units.

(3) A ship's master, ship's owner or owner's agent who has notified an authorised officer of the reportable incident must within the time prescribed in the Regulations give a report in the approved form to an authorised officer about the incident if asked to do so by an authorised officer.

Maximum penalty: 1 000 penalty units.

(4) A notice given under subsection (1) or (2) or a report given under subsection (3) may not, without the consent of the person charged, be admitted in evidence in a prosecution for an offence against section 14, 21, 27, 31, 34, 38 or 43.

reportable incident means:

(a) a discharge or probable discharge from a ship of oil or a noxious liquid substance; or

(b) the jettisoning from a ship of a harmful substance that is carried in packaged form,

if the discharge or jettisoning occurs while the ship is in coastal waters, but does not include a discharge that is prescribed in the Regulations to be exempted from this definition.