Competency of Operators of Pleasure Craft Regulations (SOR/99-53)

Suspension of Accreditation or Approval

• 7.1 (1) If a course provider issues a Pleasure Craft Operator Card without having complied with subsection 3(4), if a test is not administered in accordance with the test protocol approved under subsection 7(2) and applicable to it or it is demonstrated that a course is being given or a test is being administered to a candidate in such a manner that, on completion of the course or the test, the person’s knowledge of the matters referred to in subsection 6(2) is doubtful, the Department of Transport may do any or all of the following:

  • (a) suspend the accreditation of an accredited course;

  • (b) suspend the accreditation of an accredited test; and

  • (c) suspend the approval of a test protocol under subsection 7(2).

• (2) The Department of Transport shall reinstate an accreditation or approval suspended under subsection (1) if the situation that justified the suspension has been remedied.

• (3)  No person shall administer a course whose accreditation has been suspended or a test whose accreditation or whose test protocol approval has been suspended, except where an accreditation or approval has been reinstated.

Rental Boat Safety Checklist

8 A rental agency or a representative of a rental agency shall include, in the rental boat safety checklist for a pleasure craft, a statement that the agency or representative has given to every person who will operate the pleasure craft information pertaining to

• (a) the operation of the pleasure craft;

• (b) the principal boating safety rules; and

• (c) the geographic features and hazards in the area in which the pleasure craft will be operated.

8.1 [Repealed, SOR/2013-234, s. 7]

8.2 [Repealed, SOR/2013-234, s. 7]

8.3 [Repealed, SOR/2007-124, s. 8, err., Vol. 141, No. 15]

Coming into Force

9 These Regulations come into force on April 1, 1999.