Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2010C00802:section:26aa
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2010C00802
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 26AA
Character Range: 40949–41716

26AA  Notification of proposal to carry certain harmful substances
  Where a person who proposes to export or import a prescribed harmful substance proposes to do so by having that substance carried as cargo in a ship in packaged form or in a freight container, portable tank or road and rail tank wagon, that person or the master of the ship shall, within a prescribed time, notify, in the prescribed manner, a prescribed officer of the proposal and, if a prescribed officer is not so notified of the proposal and the substance is carried as proposed, that person and the master are each guilty of an offence punishable, upon conviction, by a fine not exceeding;
 (a) if the offender is a natural person—$5,000; or
 (b) if the offender is a body corporate—$25,000.