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MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY ACT 1973 - SECT 19

19 .         Offences as to alleged finds

        (1)         A person who makes a statement that to his knowledge is false or misleading in any material particular in relation to a claim made or notice given pursuant to this Act in respect of the alleged finding of a ship or relic commits an offence.

        (2)         A person who, not being the finder, wilfully moves, removes, defaces, alters or otherwise interferes with a buoy or other evidence of the finding placed or erected at or over a ship or relic pursuant to this Act commits an offence.

        Penalty: $1 000.

        [Section 19 amended by No. 78 of 1995 s. 147.]



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