(1) An employer must keep a register that records, for the first day of each quarter:

(a)

the name of each prescribed ship for which the employer employed or engaged seafarers; and

(b)

the number of seafarer berths on each of those prescribed ships.

Penalty:
5 penalty units.

(2)

An employer must keep an entry in the register for 5 years after the employer became liable for levy in relation to the entry.

Penalty:
5 penalty units.

(3)

An employer must, if asked in writing by the Authority or by the levy collector, give a copy of the register to the Authority or to the levy collector within 7 days after the request is made.

Penalty:
5 penalty units.

(4)

An employer is not excused from giving a copy of the register on the ground that the register might tend to incriminate the employer.

(5)

However, the register, and any information or thing (including any document) obtained as a direct or indirect consequence of the giving of a copy of the register, is not admissible in evidence against the employer in criminal proceedings other than proceedings for an offence against subregulation (1),

(2)

or (3) or section 137.1 or 137.2 of the Criminal Code in relation to giving a copy of the register.