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Part appendices

Section R — Procedures For Appeals And Requests

See rule 70. A national authority may change this appendix by prescription, but it shall not be changed by the notice of race or sailing instructions.

Time periods shall be extended by the national authority when there is good reason to do so.

R4

COMMENTS AND CLARIFICATIONS

R4.1:

The parties and protest committee may make written comments on the appeal or request or on any of the documents listed in rule R2.2, provided they do so within seven days of the national authority making them available.

R4.2:

The national authority may seek clarifications of rules governing the event from organizations that are not parties to the hearing.

R4.3:

The national authority shall send copies of comments and clarifications received to the parties and protest committee as appropriate.

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.

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 R3

Upon receipt of an appeal or a request for confirmation or correction, the national authority shall send to the parties and protest committee copies of the appe...

Rule R5

The national authority shall accept the protest committee’s finding of facts except when it decides they are inadequate. In that case it shall require the commi...

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