Western Australian Current Regulations

NAVIGABLE WATERS REGULATIONS 1958 - REG 47G

47G .         Recreational skipper’s ticket, CEO may refuse, cancel or suspend

        (1)         The CEO may refuse an application for, or cancel or suspend, a recreational skipper’s ticket if satisfied that the applicant or ticket holder — 

            (a)         is seeking to obtain, or obtained, the ticket by fraud, dishonesty or misrepresentation; or

            (b)         should not hold a recreational skipper’s ticket because he or she would be likely to be a danger to the public if permitted to be in charge of an RST vessel.

        (2)         The CEO must not cancel a recreational skipper’s ticket until the ticket holder has been given a reasonable opportunity to satisfy the CEO that the ticket should not be cancelled.

        (3)         If the CEO refuses an application for, or cancels or suspends, a recreational skipper’s ticket the CEO must give written notice of the refusal, cancellation or suspension, and the reasons for it, to the applicant or ticket holder.

        (4)         The power under subregulation (1) to cancel or suspend a recreational skipper’s ticket includes a power to cancel or suspend the application of regulation 47E to a person who is taken under that regulation to hold a recreational skipper’s ticket.

        (5)         A person aggrieved by a decision of the CEO under this regulation may apply to the State Administrative Tribunal for a review of the decision.

        [Regulation 47G inserted: Gazette 10 Feb 2006 p. 673‑4.]