Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00997:reg:104
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00997
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 104
Character Range: 104874–105733

104  Obligation to preserve evidence
 (1) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person is:
 (i) the owner or the master of a vessel involved in a marine accident; or
 (ii) otherwise concerned in a marine accident; and
 (b) the person has reason to believe that evidence relating to the marine accident may be required for an investigation into the marine accident; and
 (c) the person fails to take all reasonable measures to preserve the evidence.
Penalty: 50 penalty units.
 (2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), evidence relating to the marine accident may include nautical charts, log books and other documents.
Note: Under section 2B of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 a document includes anything from which sounds, images or writings can be reproduced with or without the aid of anything else.

Subdivision B—Other rights and responsibilities