Western Australian Current Regulations Western Australian Current Regulations (1) The chief
executive officer may, by notice published in the Gazette —
(a)
define and set aside any area of navigable waters where freestyle driving,
surfing or wave jumping on a personal watercraft is prohibited;
(b) vary
or cancel any previous notice under this subregulation.
(2) A person must not
engage in freestyle driving, surfing or wave jumping on a personal watercraft
in an area defined and set aside by the chief executive officer under
subregulation (1).
(3) A person must not,
in any navigable waters, engage in freestyle driving, surfing or wave jumping
on a personal watercraft unless the personal watercraft is —
(a) 30 m
clear of any other personal watercraft; and
(b) 50 m
clear of any other vessel or person.
(4) In this
regulation —
freestyle driving , in relation to a personal
watercraft, means the practice of driving the personal watercraft in such a
manner that the driver of another vessel in sight of the personal watercraft
would be unable to determine the intended course or speed of the personal
watercraft so as to take action under the Prevention of Collisions at Sea
Regulations 1983 to avoid a collision;
surfing in relation to a personal watercraft,
means the practice of driving the personal watercraft down a breaking wave or
swell, whether formed naturally or by the passage of a vessel;
wave jumping , in relation to a personal
watercraft, means the practice of driving the personal watercraft over or
across a breaking wave or swell, whether formed naturally or by the passage of
a vessel, with the aim of becoming airborne.
[Regulation 50A inserted: Gazette
24 Apr 1998 p. 2162‑3.]
[Heading inserted: SL 2023/135 r. 22.]