Navigation Safety Bylaw 2009

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	Introduction
1	Preliminary provisions
	1.1	Title and commencement
	1.2	Areas within which this bylaw applies
	1.3	Definition of terms
2	General matters
	2.1	Personal flotation devices¹
	2.2	Means of communication
	2.3	Persons to avoid swimming or diving around wharves or hydro power stations
	2.4	Use of vessel engine around wharves, ramps
	2.5	Vessels to be serviceable or removed¹
	2.6	Seaplanes
	2.7	Vessels moored or secured¹
	2.8	Moorings
	2.9	Prohibited anchorage
	2.10	Obstructions
	2.11	Notification of collisions or accidents
	2.12	Damage to buoys or navigation aids
	2.13	Vessels not to sound whistles
	2.14	Navigation lights
	2.15	Welding, grinding or flame-cutting operations
	2.16	Duty to provide certain information
3	Operating requirements
	3.1	Minimum age for operating power-driven vessels
	3.2	Speed of vessels¹
	3.3	Scuba diving
	3.4	Lookouts on vessels used for water skiing or towing any person
	3.5	Water skiing or towing between sunset and sunrise
	3.6	Wake
	3.7	Conduct in access lanes
	3.8	Marking of access lanes
	3.9	Reserved areas
	3.10	River safety rules
	3.11	Flags and signals
	3.12	Flagged areas on beaches
4	Administrative matters
	4.1	Appointment of harbourmaster(s) and enforcement officers¹
	4.2	Suspensions and exemptions from this bylaw
	4.3	Permanent speed upliftings
	4.4	Temporary events
	4.5	Obligation or duty on skipper/owner
	4.6	Commercial operations
	4.7	Registration of personal water craft (aka jetskis)
	4.8	Vessels to be identified
	4.9	Fees and charges
	Schedule 1 - Location specific information
		Schedule 1.1 - Mokau River
		Schedule 1.2 - Awakino River
		Schedule 1.3 - Marokopa River
		Schedule 1.4 - Taharoa Harbour
		Schedule 1.5 - Kawhia Harbour
		Schedule 1.6 - Whaingaroa (Raglan) Harbour
		Schedule 1.7 - Firth of Thames
		Schedule 1.8 - Coromandel Harbour
		Schedule 1.9 - Whangapoua Harbour
		Schedule 1.10 - Mercury Bay
		Schedule 1.11 - Tairua Estuary
		Schedule 1.12 - Whangamata Harbour
		Schedule 1.13 - Port Waikato
		Schedule 1.14 - Motukakaho Island upstream to Meremere
		Schedule 1.15 - Waikato River - Rangiriri
		Schedule 1.16 - Ngaruawahia
		Schedule 1.17 - Hamilton
		Schedule 1.18 - Lake Karapiro
		Schedule 1.19 - Lake Arapuni
		Schedule 1.20 - Lake Whakamaru
		Schedule 1.21 - Lake Maraetai
		Schedule 1.22 - Lake Ohakuri
		Schedule 1.23 - Waikato River (Huntly), Lakes Waahi, Puketirini (Weaver) and Kainui
		Schedule 1.24 - Lakes Rotokauri and Hakanoa
		Schedule 1.25 - Lake Ngaroto
	Schedule 2 - Speed exemptions
	Appendix I - Information
		Management of areas not covered by this bylaw
		Bylaw to be read in conjunction with
		Development of schedules
		Transfer of powers
		Harbourmaster/enforcement officer powers
		Penalties/offences
	Appendix II - Categories of buoyancy aids covered in NZS 5823:2005
	Appendix III - Bar crossings, closures, weather and sea/swell conditions advisory
	Appendix IV - Public boat ramps on the Waikato River
	Appendix V - Recommendation for visibility of kayaks and other paddle craft

Navigation Safety Bylaw 2009

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