Mooring Amendment Regulations 2006 (WA)

26 May 2006 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 1879

MARINE/MARITIME

MX302*

Shipping and Pilotage Act 1967

Mooring Amendment Regulations 2006

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.            Citation

These regulations are the Mooring Amendment Regulations
2006.

2.            The regulations amended

The amendments in these regulations are to the Mooring
Regulations 1998*.
[* Reprint 1 as at 8 August 2003.

For amendments to 1 February 2006 see Western Australian Legislation Information Tables for 2004, Table 4, p. 371 and Gazette 24 June 2005.]

3.             Heading to Part 2 replaced

The heading to Part 2 is deleted and the following heading is inserted instead

Part 2 — Moorings and use of mooring

control areas

4. Regulation 6A inserted
After regulation 6 the following regulation is inserted —

being secured to another vessel; or

6A.	Use of temporary anchors in mooring control area
(1)	A person must not, in a mooring control area —

(a)	secure a vessel, or allow it to remain secured to any gear other than a mooring for a period of more than 6 hours; or
(b)	otherwise anchor a vessel, or allow it to remain anchored, for a period of more than 6 hours,

unless the vessel is manned for the whole of the period
it is so secured or anchored.

Penalty: $1 000.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply so as to prohibit —

(a) a tender, as defined in regulation 6(4), from

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(b) the vessel being secured or anchored in the

event of an emergency.

5.           Regulation 7 amended

Regulation 7(1) is amended by deleting "a mooring in".

By Command of the Governor,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Executive Council.