New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

MANAGEMENT OF WATERS AND WATERSIDE LANDS REGULATIONS--N.S.W. - REG 90A

90A Lights to be exhibited on lighters moored alongside vessels or at wharves

(1) There shall be exhibited between sunset and sunrise on:

(a) subject to paragraph (b), any lighter which is moored alongside a vessel or to any wharf, or

(b) the outer lighter only of any two lighters which are moored abreast alongside a vessel or to any wharf,

at the fore and after ends of the lighter above the extreme outer edge thereof, a white light of such strength and in a lantern so constructed as to show a clear uniform and unbroken light visible all round the lighter at a distance of at least 800 metres.

(2) If a requirement of this Regulation is not complied with:

(a) where the lighter is moored alongside a vessel or where two lighters are moored abreast alongside a vessel, as the case may be, both the owner and the master of the vessel shall be guilty of an offence against this Regulation, or

(b) where the lighter is moored to a wharf or where two lighters are moored abreast to a wharf, as the case may be, the owner of the lighter failing to comply with this Regulation shall be guilty of an offence against this Regulation.