Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

PORTS AND HARBOURS REGULATIONS 1966 - REG 7

7 .         Signals on dredgers

        (1)         The signal to be displayed by the master of a dredger within a port for a purpose set out in the first column of Table 2 in the Second Schedule shall be the signal set out in the second column of that Table opposite to that purpose.

        (2)         The master of a dredger who fails to give the appropriate signal set out in that Table in any case where the dredger — 

            (a)         is blocking a channel;

            (b)         is under way but unable to manoeuvre so as to give way to or avoid any other vessel;

            (c)         is otherwise unable to move, or is out of control; or

            (d)         is so placed or is so being worked as to constitute a danger to the safe navigation of any other vessel unless the appropriate signal is given,

                commits an offence.