37Conflicts of interests

37 Conflicts of interests

(1) An accredited marine surveyor must not conduct a survey of a domestic commercial vessel if: (a) in conducting the survey, there would be a conflict of interest between the person’s duties as an accredited marine surveyor and any other interests or duties of the person; or (b) the surveyor, or a person the surveyor is related to, owns or occupies any part of the vessel. (2) For this section, a surveyor is related to a person if the surveyor: (a) is the person’s spouse, de facto partner, child, parent, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew or cousin; or (b) has a contractual arrangement with the person that might reasonably be seen to give rise to a conflict between the surveyor’s duties as a surveyor and the surveyor’s interests under the arrangement; or (c) is a private marine surveyor and is: (i) an employer, partner or employee of the person; or (ii) employed by the same employer as the person. (3) This section does not apply to a survey by an accredited marine surveyor of the surveyor’s own vessel design in the category of surveying “initial survey—plan approval”.