Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

NAVIGATION (CONSTRUCTION) REGULATIONS 1968 - REG 20

(1)

The master or owner of a ship may take the ship to sea, or permit the ship to be taken to sea, only if:

(a)

there are permanently exhibited in the wheelhouse or charthouse plans showing clearly, for each deck and hold, the boundaries of the watertight compartments, the openings in those compartments, the means of closure and the position of any controls of those means of closure and the arrangements for the correction of any list due to flooding; and

(b)

there are on board, in booklet form, a number at least equal to the number of officers normally carried in the ship of copies of the information referred to in paragraph (a).

Penalty:   2 penalty units.

(2)

An offence against subregulation (1) is an offence of strict liability.

Note    For strict liability , see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code .