61Safety equipment required for recreational vessels

61 Safety equipment required for recreational vessels

(1) A person must not be the master of a recreational vessel of a class specified in Column 2 of Table A in Part 2 of Schedule 3 on coastal waters if the vessel is not equipped with the compulsory items of equipment.

(2) A person must not be the master of a recreational vessel of a class specified in Column 2 of Table B in Part 2 of Schedule 3 on coastal waters if the vessel is not equipped with the compulsory items of equipment.

(3) A person must not be the master of a recreational vessel of a class specified in Column 2 of Table C in Part 2 of Schedule 3 on enclosed waters if the vessel is not equipped with the compulsory items of equipment.

(4) A person must not be the master of a recreational vessel of a class specified in Column 2 of Table D in Part 2 of Schedule 3 on enclosed waters if the vessel is not equipped with the compulsory items of equipment.

(5) A person must not be the master of a recreational vessel of a class specified in Column 2 of Table E in Part 2 of Schedule 3 on inland waters if the vessel is not equipped with the compulsory items of equipment.

(6) A person must not be the master of a recreational vessel of a class specified in Column 2 of Table F in Part 2 of Schedule 3 on inland waters if the vessel is not equipped with the compulsory items of equipment.

(7) A person must not be the master of a recreational vessel if the compulsory items of equipment carried on board the vessel as required under subregulation (1), (2), (3), (4), (5) or (6) do not comply with the requirements (if any) specified in Table G in Part 2 of Schedule 3 for those items of equipment.

(8) In this regulation—

compulsory items of equipment, in respect of a recreational vessel of a class specified in Column 2 of a Table in Part 2 of Schedule 3—

(a) means the items of equipment for that vessel listed in Column 3 of that Table in the quantity specified opposite in Column 4; and

(b) does not include the items of equipment excluded by subregulation (9).

(9) If—

(a) an item of equipment is specified in Column 3 of a Table in Part 2 of Schedule 3 opposite a class of vessel specified in Column 2 of that Table; and

(b) the quantity specified in Column 4 of that Table for that item is accompanied by a description of a condition—

that item, in the specified quantity, is not a compulsory item of equipment in respect of a recreational vessel of the specified class unless the condition is met.

Examples

1 For mechanically powered recreational vessels, the requirements relating to a bailer are expressed in Column 4 of Tables A, C and E in Part 2 of Schedule 3 as "1—if no electric or manual bilge pumping system". This means that 1 bailer is only a for a mechanically powered recreational vessel if there is no electric or manual bilge pumping system on the vessel.