Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

NAVIGABLE WATERS REGULATIONS 1958 - REG 45EB

45EB .         Duty of owner to reaffix a hull identification number altered, removed or rendered illegible

                Where a hull identification number of a registered vessel has, without the approval of the chief executive officer, been altered, removed or rendered illegible (whether accidentally or deliberately), the owner of the vessel commits an offence if the owner does not, as soon as practicable after becoming aware that the number has been altered, removed or rendered illegible, ensure that the number approved by the chief executive officer is reaffixed to the hull of the vessel by a person, and in a form and manner, approved by the chief executive officer.

        [Regulation 45EB inserted in Gazette 1 Dec 2000 p. 6768.]