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Set Aside Determination and Declaration of Boating Activity Exemptions
Event name:
Ironman 70.3 Geelong
Date/time of event:
7:00am to 10:00am Sunday 24 March 2024
Location:
Local Port of Port Phillip - Eastern Beach, Geelong
Details:
Port Management Act
1995 (Vic.)
Port Management (Local
Ports) Regulations 2015
Set Aside Determination – Regulation 11(1)
Local port of Port Phillip
I, Graeme Davis District Manager Port
Phillip Western Port of Parks Victoria (as delegate of the Port Manager),
determine under Regulation 11(1) of the Port
Management
(Local Ports) Regulations 2015 that the areas defined in the following table are set aside
for the purposes and conditions specified.
This determination has been made in
accordance with Regulation 11(2)
(b) if the port manager reasonably
believes that there is imminent risk of—
(i) harm or
damage to—
(A) the health
or safety of any person; or
(ii) significant
interference with the safe, efficient and effective management of the local
port.
In accordance with Regulation 11(4), this
determination replaces any previous set aside determination made by the port
manager in respect of that area or any part there of that area for the period
specified in this temporary determination.
This determination applies from 6.00am to
10.00am Sunday 24th March 2024.
Signed at Melbourne
by Graeme Davis
District Manager Port Phillip
Western Port
on 15/02/2024
Regulation
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Description
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Purpose
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Area
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Reasonable conditions (Regulation 14)
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11(1)(a)
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Determination to set aside an area in a
local port in which access to that area is prohibited or restricted for not
more than 90 days.
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To set aside an area for the safety of
swimmers competing in the Ironman 70.3 Geelong.
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Those areas off Corio Bay, Eastern Beach,
Geelong as indicated by the attached map in a triangular area bounded by the
following approximate locations (WGS84)
1. 38°08.7913’S, 144°22.1888’E
2. 38°08.3617’S, 144°22.2638’E
3. 38°08.7200’S, 144°22.4537’E
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Mariners are required to avoid the
competition area during the Set Aside period and follow the direction of
event marshals and safety personnel.
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PUBLIC NOTICE
DECLARATION
OF BOATING ACTIVITY EXEMPTION
Parks Victoria as the declared waterway manager
for the Local Port
of Port Phillip, makes the following declaration under section
203(3) of the Marine Safety Act 2010
(Vic).
For the purposes of boating activity conducted by
Ironman Australia, persons and vessels involved in the Ironman 70.3 Geelong are
exempt from the following requirements:
State
Rules made under the Marine Act 1988
1.
Clause 2(a) – must not exceed 5
knots within 50 metres of a person in the water
2.
Clause 2(c) – must not exceed 5
knots within 50 metres of another vessel
3.
Clause 4(a) – must not exceed 5
knots within 200 metres of the water’s edge
4.
Clause 4(b) – must not exceed 5
knots within 50 metres of a wharf, jetty, slipway, diving platform or boat ramp
Waterway
Rules made under the Marine Safety Act 2010 / Marine Act 1988
5.
Clause 1.4.7 of Schedule 1 – 5 knot speed
restriction zones: waters of South West Port Phillip within 200 metres of the
waters’ edge
6.
Clause 1.4.12(c) of Schedule 1 - The master of a personal watercraft
must not operate the personal watercraft: for any purpose other than transiting
in the safest most direct course to, or from the shore and/or a boat ramp or
berthing facility (including a jetty, pier or mooring), whilst operating within
designated 5 knot speed restriction zones
Subject to the conditions detailed below:
·
Masters of powered rescue vessels are only exempt from items 1 to 5 when
undertaking a rescue operation to retrieve persons in distress, provide for
their initial medical or other needs and deliver them to a place of safety on
shore.
·
Masters of personal watercraft (Jet Ski) rescue vessels are only exempt
from item 6 (irregular riding rule) for the duration of the event and must not
exceed 5 knots when operating within designated 5 knot speed restriction zones,
unless undertaking a rescue operation.
·
Occupants of powered vessels and personal watercraft involved with the
event must wear a lifejacket at all times during the event and vessels must
have all prescribed safety equipment.
·
The exemptions apply from 7:00am to 10:00am Sunday 24 March 2024 within the
Set Aside waters at Eastern Beach, Geelong.
·
The exemptions apply provided the stated safety controls and
undertakings detailed in the application form and associated documentation are
adhered to.
By order of Parks Victoria
Dated: 15/02/24