Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The overall purpose of this Act is to protect Queensland's marine and coastal environment by minimising deliberate 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)
• Annex II (which deals with pollution by noxious liquid substances in bulk)
• Annex III (which deals with pollution by harmful substances in packaged form)
• Annex IV (which deals with pollution by sewage)
• Annex V (which deals with pollution by garbage).
(3) The purpose is also to be achieved by—
(a) providing an approach to protecting Queensland's marine and coastal environment from ship-sourced pollutants complementary to the approach of the Commonwealth and the other States; and
(b) making provision about the discharge of sewage from ships; and
(c) giving power to deal with shipping casualties that are polluting, or threatening to pollute, coastal waters; and
(d) enhancing, through education processes, industry and community awareness of the effects of ship-sourced pollutants on Queensland's marine and coastal environment; and
(e) providing for the imposition of severe penalties on persons who pollute Queensland's marine and coastal environment in contravention of this Act.