Acts,Regulations and Codes

What does the Small Vessel Regulations outline?

• The regulations for the prevention of pollution from ships and for dangerous chemicals

• Criminal Code of Canada

• The minimum mandatory safety equipment required to be carried on a pleasure craft (based on size). The safety precautions to follow before and while on the water.

• passed in 1992 to provide a procedure for less-serious federal offences to be prosecuted in a regulatory manner. These offenses could be prosecuted by means of a fine instead of criminal law.

What does the Canada Shipping Act establish?

• A framework of rules and regulations an incorporates international conventions that shape the behaviour of mariners.

• As of Sept. 2009 regulations that require operators of a pleasure craft with a motor to have proof of competency on board at all times

• Protects animals in the water

• Non-residents of Canada, who are operating in Canadian waters for less than 45 days, are not required to have proof of competency.

What regulation states that a spotter must keep watch on a person being towed and that a person cannot be towed after dark?

• Cadets Canada

• Canada Shipping Act, 2001

• Contraventions Act

• Criminal Code of Canada

Who has the authority to request a sample of bodily fluids when investigating pleasure craft operator impairment?

• Criminal Code of Canada

• Canadian Shipping Act, 2001

• Contraventions Act

• All of the above

What is the fine for operating a power-driven pleasure craft without the required PCOC?

• 50 Hours of Community Service

• $100

• 2 Months in Prison

• $250

What is the fine for having an insufficient number of approved, appropriately sized

floatation devices?

• $200 for each missing/ appropriately sized flotation device

• $100 for each missing/ appropriately sized floatation device

• $500 total, regardless of how many is missing

• $0 as long as the person can swim

Which regulation states that pleasure craft that are propelled by oars or paddles are not

required to carry charts and nautical publications?

• Collision Regulations

• Chart and Nautical Publication Regulations

• Small Vessel Regualtions

• If you a safety boat near you, you are fine

What are the three acts with which pleasure craft operators must comply?

• Criminal Code of Canada, Young Boaters of Canada, Cadets Canada

• Contravention Act, Canadian Shipping Act 2001, and Young Boaters

• Scouts Boating, Young Boaters, and Cadets Canada

• Criminal Code of Canada, Contraventions Act, and Canadian Shipping Act 2001

What is missing safety equipment, operating a pleasure craft while impaired, operating a pleasure craft in a reckless manner and failure to produce a PCOC?

• Young Boaters

• Criminal Code of Canada

• Canadian Shipping Act, 2001

• Contraventions Act

what acts, codes and regulations must all pleasure craft operators obey?

• the Criminal Code of Canada

• the Contraventions Act

• the Canada Shipping Act 2001

• All of the above