Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00015:section:269
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00015
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 269
Character Range: 444865–446165

269  Simplified outline of this Part

      Division 2 provides an offence of discharging ballast water. For an Australian vessel, the offence applies whether the vessel is in or outside Australian seas. For a foreign vessel, the offence applies only if the vessel is in Australian seas.
      The rest of this Part sets out exceptions to the offence that may apply if:
             (a) the ballast water was managed for discharge by an approved method of ballast water management, or by ballast water exchange (Division 3); or
             (b) the discharge was part of an acceptable ballast water exchange (Division 4); or
             (c) the discharge was an approved discharge of ballast water to a ballast water reception facility (Division 5); or
             (d) the discharge was covered by an exemption (Division 6, which also provides for the Director of Biosecurity to prescribe and grant exemptions); or
             (e) the ballast water was discharged at or near the place where it was taken up into the vessel (Division 7); or
             (f) the ballast water was discharged for reasons of safety, by accident or in order to avoid or minimise pollution (Division 8, which also sets out reporting requirements for such discharges).

Division 2—Offence of discharging ballast water