The former Xena: Warrior Princess star will have to paya mere NZD 650 ($545) after the incident on the 13,500–gt Noble Discoverer (built 1966)last year in Taranaki.

Lawless pleaded guilty to unlawfullyboarding the vessel with a group of Greenpeace activists and occupying it forthree days in a bid to prevent it setting sail for the arctic.

The actress and six other people scaled a 53-metre drilling derrick on theship, which was chartered to Shell, and wereeventually arrested by police after refusing to come down.

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