Victorian Consolidated Regulations Victorian Consolidated Regulations(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.
Penalty: 20 penalty units.
(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.
Penalty: 20 penalty units.
(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.
Penalty: 20 penalty units.
(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.
Penalty: 20 penalty units.
(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.
Penalty: 20 penalty units.
(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.
Penalty: 20 penalty units.
(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.
Penalty: 20 penalty units.
(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 "compulsory item of equipment" for a mechanically powered recreational vessel if there is no electric or manual bilge pumping system on the vessel.
2 For any class of recreational vessels that is to be operated on coastal waters, the requirements relating to a compass are expressed in Column 4 of Table A in Part 2 of Schedule 3 as "1—if more than 2 nautical miles from the coast". This means that such a vessel is required to be equipped with a compass only if the vessel operates more than 2 nautical miles from the coast.