New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

MANAGEMENT OF WATERS AND WATERSIDE LANDS REGULATIONS--N.S.W. - REG 43

43 Occupation licence number

(1) Where any floating object, apparatus or vessel is occupying any navigable waters in pursuance of an occupation licence and is not secured to a mooring apparatus, the floating object, apparatus or vessel shall have clearly painted on it, or on a sign securely affixed to it, in characters not less than 50 mm high, the identifying number of the licence.

(2) A mooring apparatus shall at all times have clearly painted or incised on it, and if it consists of two or more unconnected portions on each such portion, in characters not less than 50 mm high, the identifying number of the floating object, apparatus or vessel directed or approved to be secured to it.

(3) Where the identifying number is, pursuant to this Regulation, painted or incised on a buoy attached to or forming part of a mooring apparatus and the buoy is removed from the water when a vessel is secured to that mooring apparatus, the buoy shall be securely affixed to the forepart of the vessel.

(4) An identifying number painted or incised on a mooring apparatus, and a sign or buoy required to be affixed to a floating object or apparatus or a vessel, as the case may be, under this Regulation, shall be so positioned that the identifying number or the sign or buoy can be seen without difficulty from a passing vessel.