24Registration label and identification mark

24 Registration label and identification mark

(1) For each vessel that is registered under regulation 12 or for which the registration is renewed under regulation 14, the Safety Director must issue a registration label and assign an identification mark.

(2) The owner of a registered recreational vessel must ensure that the registration label issued by the Safety Director under subregulation (1) for that vessel is fixed and remains fixed in a conspicuous position on the outside or upper part of the vessel.

(3) The owner of a registered recreational vessel that is not a personal watercraft must ensure that the identification mark that is assigned by the Safety Director for that vessel is painted or displayed in appropriate characters—

(a) on each side of the hull of the vessel; and

(b) forward of the beam; and

(c) so that the highest part of each digit is at a point no more than 75 millimetres below the gunwale.

(4) In subregulation (3), appropriate characters means characters that are—

(a) no less than 150 millimetres high; and

(b) of proportionate breadth; and

(c) coloured in contrast to the surface on which they are displayed.

(5) The owner of a registered recreational vessel that is a personal watercraft must ensure that the identification mark that is assigned by the Safety Director for that vessel is painted or displayed in appropriate characters—

(a) on each side of the hull of the vessel; and

(b) forward of the beam; and

(c) so that the highest part of each digit is at a point no more than 25 millimetres below the gunwale.

(6) In subregulation (5), appropriate characters means characters that are—

(a) no less than 100 millimetres high; and

(b) of proportionate breadth; and

(c) coloured in contrast to the surface on which they are displayed.

(7) A person must not be the master of a registered vessel on State waters if an identification mark is not painted or displayed on the vessel in accordance with subregulation (3) or (5).