PART 3

Duties and Powers of Trustees

Power to regulate pleasure craft
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1
A person shall not within the harbour—
a
let for hire to the public a pleasure craft except with the written approval of the Trustees in accordance with this article, or
b
carry, or permit to be carried, passengers for hire in a pleasure craft unless the craft, and the boatmen in charge of the craft and the navigator, are approved in writing by the Trustees.
2
Any such approval may be given for such period as the Trustees may think fit, and may be suspended or revoked by the Trustees whenever it shall deem such suspension or revocation to be necessary or desirable in the interests of public safety.
3
The existence of the power to suspend or revoke the approval shall be stated plainly in the approval itself.
4
A person taking on hire a pleasure craft for purposes other than for profit does not require to be approved as a boatman.
5
Approval under this article shall not be required for—
a
any craft which has a relevant certificate issued by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and valid for the voyage intended or, in the case of hovercraft within the meaning of the Hovercraft Act 1968 , a certificate of safety valid for the voyage intended; or
b
a pleasure boat or pleasure vessel which is licensed under section 94 of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act 1907.
6
A person shall not carry or permit to be carried in any pleasure craft within the harbour a greater number of passengers for hire than are specified in the approval applying to such craft, and every owner of any such craft shall before permitting the same to be used for carrying passengers for hire within the harbour, permanently display in letters and figures not less than three centimetres in height and one half centimetre in breadth, on a conspicuous part of the craft, their own name and also the number of persons which it is approved to carry, in the form “Approved to carry [ ] persons”.
7
Any person who acts in contravention of paragraph (1) or (6) is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
8
Any person aggrieved by the withholding, suspension or revocation of any approval or by any term or condition subject to which an approval has been given under this article may appeal to the sheriff.
9
In this article “pleasure craft” means any vessel of not more than 100 tonnes gross used wholly or mainly for recreation or for the carriage of passengers for reward.
1968 c.59.