Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The owner or master of a ship must not operate the ship in nil discharge waters for treated sewage or untreated sewage from a ship, unless the owner or master complies with the requirements prescribed under a regulation in relation to the holding or treating of sewage on the ship.
Maximum penalty—850 penalty units.
(2) The nil discharge waters for treated sewage or untreated sewage from a ship are the coastal waters prescribed under a regulation for this section.
(3) This section applies despite the Criminal Code, sections 23 and 24.
(4) In this section—
operate, a ship, includes anchor, berth or moor the ship.
ship—
(a) means a ship that has a fixed toilet; and
(b) does not include—
(i) a declared ship under section 49; or
(ii) a prescribed ship under section 50A.