New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COMMERCIAL VESSELS ACT 1979 - SECT 15

15 Permit plates and survey schedules

(1) With each permit there shall be issued a corresponding permit plate to be affixed to the vessel or motor to which the permit relates.

(2) A permit plate shall specify:

(a) the identification number of the permit to which it corresponds,

(b) the classification of that permit, and

(c) such particulars as the Minister considers appropriate for the permit plate.

(3) With each vessel permit there shall be issued a survey schedule for the vessel which:

(a) shall provide that the vessel and the parts and components of the vessel specified in the survey schedule must be periodically submitted for survey not later than the expiration of such intervals as are specified in, or ascertainable from, the survey schedule in relation to the vessel and each such part or component, and

(b) shall specify the nature of the survey required in each case.

(4) The Minister may, from time to time, by notice in writing given to the holder of a vessel permit, amend the survey schedule for the vessel in the manner specified in the notice.

(5) Where the holder of a permit:

(a) notifies the Minister that the corresponding permit plate has been lost or destroyed, satisfactorily accounts for its loss or destruction and pays the prescribed fee, or

(b) returns the corresponding permit plate to the Minister because it is damaged or has become illegible and pays the prescribed fee,

the Minister shall issue to the holder a replacement for the permit plate.

(6) Where an officer of the Minister is of the opinion that a permit plate has been so damaged or defaced as to be illegible or misleading the officer may remove the permit plate from the vessel or motor to which it is affixed.

(7) A person who obstructs an officer of the Minister in the exercise of the officer’s powers under subsection (6) is guilty of an offence against this Act.

(8) Where the Minister is aware that alteration or reconstruction of a vessel or motor is proposed or has commenced and by notice in writing given to the owner of the vessel personally or by post requires the owner to return to the Minister the permit plate for the vessel or motor, the owner is guilty of an offence against this Act if the owner fails to comply with the requirement within a time specified in the notice for compliance.