Bermuda Consolidated Legislation

 

 

BERMUDA STATUTORY INSTRUMENT

BR 55/1988

MARINE BOARD (DECLARATION OF SPEED LIMITS FOR BOATS) (MARINERS) NOTICE 1988

[made under section 10(1)(a) of the Marine Board Act 1962 [title 22 item 3] and brought into operation on 21 July 1988]

ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

1 Citation

2 Speed limit for boats

3 Speed limits not applica ble in certain areas

4 [omitted]

5 [spent]

Citation

1 This notice may be cited as the Marine Board (Declaration of Speed Limits for Boats) (Mariners) Notice 1988.

Speed limit for boats

2 Subject to paragraph 3, any person navigating a boat within 100 meters of the shoreline of any of the Islands of Bermuda shall not exceed 5 nautical miles per hour and in any event shall ensure that his boat does not create a wake.

Speed limits not applicable in certain areas

3 The restrictions imposed in paragraph 2 shall not apply to per sons while navigating boats in the following areas within the Islands of Bermuda—

(a) Two Rock Passage;

(b) Head of the Lane Passage;

(c) Town Cut Channel;

(d) Ferry Reach (from the sea to the Airfield Landing light pylons approaching from the West);

(e) Western Hogfish Channel from the Dockyard to the sea except the section west of Mangrove Bay between the Quintons and Gray's Point (also shown as Flora Point on some charts).

G.N. No. 249 of 1988 rescinded

4 [omitted]

Notice not applicable to annual Round-the-Island Power Boat Race held on 7 August 1988

5 [spent]