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SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1378
CONTROLS ON USE CF PLEASURE CRAFT
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MORE CONTROLS ON THE USE OF PLEASURE VESSELS WILL BE IMPOSED UNDER THE MERCHANT SHIPPING (PLEASURE VESSELS) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 1976 WHICH WAS GAZETTED ON FRIDAY.
UNDER THE AMENDMENT REGULATIONS, TO DE ENFORCED AT A LATER DATE, THE DEFINITION OF PLEASURE VESSEL IS WIDENED TO COVER NOT ONLY LAUNCHES, YACHTS, INFLATABLE VESSELS, JUNKS OR LORCHAS, EUT ALSO ANY OTHER VESSEL WHICH HAS AN ENGINE AND IS USED EXCLUSIVELY FOR PLEASURE PURPOSES.
A DEFINITION OF LICENSED CUNER OF A PLEASURE VESSEL IS ALSO PROVIDED TO TRANSFER THE OBLIGATION TO COMPLY WITH THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS FROM THE LEGAL OWNER TO THE LICENSED OWNER TO WHOM THE LICENCE IS ISSUED.
IN ADDITION, THE AMENDMENT REGULATIONS ALSO EMPOWER THE DIRECTOR OF MARINE TO SUSPEND OR CANCEL THE LICENCE OF A PLEASURE VESSEL FOR BREACH OF LICENCE CONDITION OR OF ANY OF THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS.
THE NEW REGULATIONS ALSO MAKE IT AN OFFENCE TO POSSESS AN UNLICENSED PLEASURE VESSEL WHILE UNDER THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS, IT IS AN OFFENCE TO USE AN UNLICENSED CRAFT.
OTHER AMENDMENTS CONCERN THE LICENCE CONDITIONS, THE NOTIFICATION TO THE DIRECTOR OF MARINE OF ANY CHANGE IN THE REGISTERED PARTICULARS OF THE VESSEL AND THE CORRECT USE OF SUCH VESSELS.
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