Ship agent's failure to submit port entry and departure documents (Art. 114¹⁴)

What is the fine for a ship agent's failure to submit documents?

Under Article 114¹⁴, the violation entails a fine on the ship's agent of 1 000 lari.

To whom must the agent submit the documents?

To the port state supervision and control service — in the form established by the legislation of Georgia and/or within the established time limit.

What counts as a violation?

The failure to submit the appropriate documents concerning the vessel's entry into the seaport and/or departure from it in the established form and/or within the established deadline.

What happens if the fine is not paid?

A surcharge equal to double the fine is imposed, and if the fine and surcharge remain unpaid within 30 days from the imposition of the surcharge, enforcement measures follow under Georgian legislation.

4 min·22 Aug 2026

What Article 114¹⁴ regulates

Article 114¹⁴ of the Code of Administrative Offences of Georgia governs the administrative liability of a ship's agent for breaches of the procedure for formalising a vessel's entry into a seaport and/or departure from it. Specifically, the norm addresses the situation where the ship's agent fails to submit the appropriate documents concerning the vessel's entry into the port and/or departure from the port to the port state supervision and control service — either in a form that does not comply with the form established by the legislation of Georgia, or outside the established time limit.

The timely and correctly formalised submission of documents is one of the foundations of port administration: it is on the basis of these documents that the state supervision service exercises control over the entry and departure of vessels. A breach of this obligation by the agent is therefore not a mere formality — it complicates the regulation of the port and is answered by a clear sanction.

The elements of the offence

From the text of the article, the elements of the administrative offence can be broken down as follows:

the subject — the ship's agent;
the addressee — the port state supervision and control service;
the object — the appropriate documents concerning the vessel's entry into the seaport and/or departure from it;
the form of the breach — failure to submit the documents in the form established by the legislation of Georgia and/or within the established time limit.

It is important that the norm uses an "and/or" construction: the breach may consist in a non-compliant form, in a missed deadline, or in both at once. When a concrete case is assessed, the decisive question is therefore which requirement was violated — the form, the deadline, or both together.

Who is the responsible subject

The fine is imposed on the ship's agent. It is the agent who, under the article, is obliged to submit the documentation to the supervision and control service. The text of the article does not mention other subjects in connection with this sanction, so the determination of the proper addressee of the proceedings must be based on the exact content of the norm.

The role of the ship's agent in port procedures is such that the performance of documentary obligations falls precisely on that person, and neglect of this role ends in a fine. Organising document flow is therefore one of the most practical issues in agency activity.