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Part 5 — When Boats Meet

Section B — General Limitations

63.7

Reopening a Hearing

(a) The protest committee may reopen a hearing if it decides (1) a party was unavoidably absent from the hearing, (2) it may have made a significant error, or (3) significant new evidence has become available within a reasonable time. However, a protest committee shall reopen a hearing when required to do so by the national authority under rule 71.3 or R5. (b) A party to the hearing may request a reopening by delivering a written request to the race office (or by such other method as stated in the sailing instructions) no later than 24 hours after being informed of the decision. The request shall identify the reason for making it. However, on the last scheduled day of racing the request shall be delivered (1) within the protest time limit if the requesting party was informed of the decision on the previous day; (2) no later than 30 minutes after the party was informed of the decision on that day. A request that does not comply with this rule is invalid. (c) The protest committee shall consider all requests to reopen a hearing. When a request to reopen is being considered, or when the hearing is reopened, (1) if based only on new evidence, a majority of the members of the protest committee shall, if practicable, be members of the original committee; (2) if based on a significant error, the protest committee shall, if practicable, have at least one new member.

Definitions in Context

Committee

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

Party

A party to a hearing is

  • (a) for a protest hearing: a protestor, a protestee;
  • (b) for a redress hearing: a boat requesting redress or for which redress is requested; a boat for which a hearing is called to consider redress under rule 61.1; a committee acting under rule 61.1;
  • (c) for a redress hearing under rule 61.4(b)(1): the body alleged to have made an improper action or improper omission;
  • (d) a person against whom an allegation of a breach of rule 69.1(a) is made; a person presenting an allegation under rule 69.2(e)(1);
  • (e) a support person subject to a hearing under rule 62 or 69; any boat that person supports; a person appointed to present an allegation under rule 62.2.

However, the protest committee is never a party.

Protest

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

Racing

A boat is racing from her preparatory signal until she finishes and clears the finishing line and marks or retires, or until the race committee signals a general recall, postponement or abandonment.

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.

Rule 63.6

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