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Part 5 — When Boats Meet

Section B — General Limitations

63.2

Hearings

(a) The protest committee shall hear each protest or request delivered unless it allows it to be withdrawn. (b) The protest committee may combine hearings which arise from the same or very closely connected incidents into one hearing. However, a hearing under rule 69 shall not be combined with any other type of hearing. (c) If the validity requirements are met, the protest committee may change the type of case if it is appropriate to do so having considered the information in the case, including any evidence given during a hearing. (d) If the protest committee decides to protest a boat under rule 60.4(c)(2), it shall close the current hearing, deliver a protest in accordance with the rules, and then hear the original and new protests together. (e) A hearing involving parties in different events conducted by different organizing authorities shall be heard by a protest committee acceptable to those authorities.

Definitions in Context

Committee

The protest committee, the race committee or the technical committee.

Protest

An allegation made under rule 60 by a boat or a committee that a boat has broken a rule.

Rule
  • (a) The rules in this book, including the Definitions, Race Signals, Introduction, preambles and the rules of relevant appendices, but not the Basic Principles or titles;
  • (b) World Sailing Regulations that have been designated by World Sailing as having the status of a rule and are published on the World Sailing website;
  • (c) the prescriptions of the national authority, unless they are changed by the notice of race or sailing instructions in compliance with the national authority’s prescription, if any, to rule 88.2;
  • (d) the class rules (for a boat racing under a handicap or rating system, the rules of that system are ‘class rules’);
  • (e) the notice of race;
  • (f) the sailing instructions; and
  • (g) any other documents that govern the event.

Related Cases

Case 44

A boat is not permitted to protest a race committee for breaking a rule. However, if she tries to do so, her ‘protest’ may meet the requirements of a request for redress, in which case the protest committee shall treat it accordingly.

Case 49

When two protests arise from the same incident, or from very closely connected incidents, they should be heard together in the presence of representatives of all the boats involved.

Rule 63.1

(a) All parties to a hearing shall be (1) informed of the time and place of the hearing, (2) given access to the protest, request for redress, or report to be c...

Rule 63.3

(a) A protest committee member shall declare any possible conflict of interest as soon as possible after becoming aware of it. (b) A party to the hearing who be...

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