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to the Load Lines Convention if approved by the Administration of the country where the vessel is registered.
Penalty: 50 penalty units.
       (2) An offence against subsection (1) is a strict liability offence.
       (3) A person is liable to a civil penalty if the person contravenes subsection (1).
Civil penalty: 50 penalty units.
Note 1   Stability information requirements are also mentioned in regulation 5 of Chapter II-1 of SOLAS for vessels to which SOLAS applies.
Note 2   Loading stress information will require re-approval if the vessel undergoes structural modification.
       (4) For paragraph (1)(a), a loading instrument includes a computer and any associated computer program:
(a) for a regulated Australian vessel — approved by an issuing body; and
(b) for a foreign vessel — approved by the Administration of the country in which the vessel is registered.

23 Stability information
       (1) The master of a foreign vessel must not take the vessel to sea if the stability information mentioned in paragraph (3) of Regulation 10 of Annex I to the Load Lines Convention is not on board the vessel.
Penalty: 50 penalty units.
       (2) The stability information must be approved by the Administration of the country in which the vessel is registered.
Note   For a vessel to which SOLAS does not apply, paragraph (3) of Regulation 10 of Annex I requires approved stability information to be on board for use of the master. For a vessel to which SOLAS does apply, regulation 5 of Chapter II-1 details weight survey, inclining test and stability information requirements.
       (3) An offence against subsection (1) is a strict liability offence.
       (4) A person is liable to a civil penalty if the person contravenes subsection (1).
Civil penalty: 50 penalty units
Division 5 Vessels not to be overloaded

24 The meaning of overloaded
       (1) This section sets out the circumstances in which a vessel is overloaded for paragraph 23(b) of the Navigation Act.
Note   It is an offence under section 109 of the Navigation Act if an unseaworthy vessel is taken to sea.
       (2) A vessel, other than a passenger vessel, is overloaded if:
(a) the appropriate load line would be submerged if the vessel were floating without a list in still salt water of a specific gravity of 1.025; or
(b) the vessel is engaged on, or is about to engage on, a voyage during which a load line, other than the appropriate load line, would:
 (i) become the appropriate load line (the second load line) during the voyage; and
 (ii) the second load line would be submerged if the vessel were floating without a list in still salt water of a specific gravity of 1.025.
Note   The fuel and other material that would normally