• 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.

8. A person who makes a pleasure craft available for rent must include, in a rental boat safety checklist, a statement that they have given to the persons 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 An enforcement officer may, in order to verify and ensure compliance with these Regulations,

• (a) ask any pertinent questions of, and demand all reasonable assistance from, the owner or master, or any person who is in charge or appears to be in charge, of a pleasure craft;

• (b) require that the owner or master or other person who is in charge or appears to be in charge of the pleasure craft produce forthwith

  • (i) personal identification, and

  • (ii) any other document required by these Regulations; and

• (c) go on board any pleasure craft.

• 8.2 (1) Subject to subsection (2), an enforcement officer may, in order to promote public safety or to ensure compliance with these Regulations, direct or prohibit the movement of a pleasure craft or direct the operator of a pleasure craft to stop it.

• (2) Except in an emergency, an enforcement officer shall not, without the prior consent of the person in charge of monitoring marine traffic, give a direction under subsection (1) that would contradict a direction given by that person in respect of a pleasure craft when it is in any of the following waters:

  • (a) the Seaway, as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Canada Marine Act;

  • (b) a public port, as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Canada Marine Act;

  • (c) a port that is under the jurisdiction of a port authority as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Canada Marine Act; and

  • (d) a Vessel Traffic Services Zone referred to in sections 562.16 and 562.18 of the Canada Shipping Act.