Maritime Services Act 1935 Regulation relating to buoyancy garments and penalties (1992-386) [GG No 89 of 17.7.1992] (NSW)

1992—No. 386

MARITIME SERVICES ACT 1935—REGULATION

(Relating to buoyancy garments and penalties)

NEW SOUTH WALES

[Published in Gazette No. 89 of 17 July 1992]

HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council,
and in pursuance of the Maritime Services Act 1935, has been pleased to
approve the Regulation made by the Maritime Services Board of New

South Wales and set forth hereunder.

BRUCE BAIRD,

Minister for Transport.

The Maritime Services Board of New South Wales, in pursuance of the

Maritime Services Act 1935, hereby makes the following Regulation:

Commencement

1. This Regulation commences on 3rd August, 1992.

Amendments

2. The Boating (Safety Equipment) Regulation—N.S.W. is amended:

(a) by inserting in clause 2 in alphabetical order the following definition:

“Buoyancy vest” includes a buoyancy garment and any other

al flotation device in the nature of a buoyancy vest;

(b) by omitting the matter relating to Buoyancy Vests from Column 2 of Schedule 1 and by inserting instead the following matter:

Designed and manufactured in accordance with the Australian standard specification for personal floatation devices of Type 2 or Type 3 of the Standards Association of Australia and bearing the appropriate trademark of that Association

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(c) by omitting from the matter relating to items 2 (a), 9 (a) and 10 (a) in Columns 2 and 3 of Schedule 2 the matter “$400” wherever occurring and by inserting instead the matter “$l00”.

DATED this 15th day of June, 1992.

The COMMON SEAL of the MARITIME SERVICES BOARD OF NEW SOUTH WALES was hereto duly affixed in the presence of the Chief Executive:

W. L. Gilbert

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Clause 13 of the Boating Safety Equipment Regulation—N.S.W. requires safety equipment carried by vessels to comply with minimum requirements detailed in Schedule 1. The object of this Regulation is to extend the requirements relating to buoyancy vests to include buoyancy garments and personal flotation devices in the name of buoyancy vests. The Regulation also decreases from $400 to $100 the penalty fixed by a penalty notice for not carrying a life jacket or buoyancy vest for each person on board the vessel.