Duties of masters to help if a marine incident happens involving 2 or more ships
124 Duties of masters to help if a marine incident happens involving 2 or more ships
This section applies to a marine incident involving 2 or more ships.
The master of a Queensland regulated ship involved in the marine incident must, to the extent that the master can do so without danger to the master’s ship or persons on board the master’s ship—
give to each other ship involved in the incident, its master and persons on board the ship the help necessary to save them from danger caused by the marine incident; and
stay by the other ship until the other ship does not need further help; and
give to the master of the other ship reasonable particulars adequate to identify the ship and its owner.
Maximum penalty—
for contravention of paragraph (a) or (b)—500 penalty units or imprisonment for 1 year; or
for contravention of paragraph (c)—40 penalty units.
However, if the contravention of subsection (2)(a) or (b) causes the death of, or grievous bodily harm to, a person, the master commits an indictable offence and is liable to a maximum penalty of 5,000 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years.
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