Section 12.
1Form and content of applications.
2Evidence to be submitted in support of applications, the form in which it is to be submitted and the time within which it is to be submitted.
3The safety, health or welfare of persons employed in any licensed operations or in any ancillary operations.
4The holding of inquiries into accidents occurring in the course of any licensed operations.
5The prohibition of any method of working which in the opinion of the Secretary of State is or is likely to be harmful to any marine creatures, plants or other organisms or their habitat.
6Powers of inspectors to board, and to obtain access to all parts of, any ship used for exploration or exploitation, and to obtain information and to inspect and take copies from any log book or other document.
7Powers of inspectors to test equipment and, in special circumstances, to dismantle, test to destruction or take possession of any article of equipment.
8Powers of inspectors to require, in connection with the survey or inspection of any equipment, the carrying out of procedures by such persons as may be specified in the regulations.
9Rights of inspectors to require, on payment of reasonable costs, conveyance to and from any ship used in connection with any licensed operations, together with any equipment required by an inspector for testing, or any equipment of which he has taken possession in special circumstances.
10Duties to provide inspectors with reasonable accommodation and means of subsistence while on any ship in exercise of their functions under this Act
11Powers to be exercisable by inspectors in case of immediate or apprehended danger.
12Regulations may provide that any prescribed breach of regulations shall be an indictable offence or a summary offence or an offence triable either way and punishable with a fine of such amount as may be prescribed but not exceeding, in the case of summary conviction, the statutory maximum.
13Regulations may afford such defence, if any, as may be prescribed in relation to any offence created by regulations made under this Act.