Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

NAVIGABLE WATERS REGULATIONS 1958 - REG 50B

50B .         Personal flotation device to be worn by the driver and passenger of a personal watercraft

        (1)         A person must not, in any navigable waters, drive a personal watercraft unless the person and any passenger on the personal watercraft is wearing an appropriate personal flotation device.

        (2)         A person must not, in any navigable waters, travel on a personal watercraft as a passenger unless the person is wearing an appropriate personal flotation device.

        (3)         In this regulation — 

        appropriate personal flotation device means — 

            (a)         a PFD Type 1, if a personal watercraft is being used — 

                  (i)         outside of protected waters; and

                  (ii)         more than 400 metres from any shore;

                or

            (b)         a PFD Type 2 or PFD Type 3 in any other case.

        [Regulation 50B inserted in Gazette 24 Apr 1998 p. 2163.]

[ 50C, 50D.         Deleted in Gazette 19 Dec 1962 p. 4017.]