Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00974:reg:37
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00974
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 37
Character Range: 51955–53104

37  Conflicts of interests
 (1) An accredited marine surveyor must not conduct a survey of a domestic commercial vessel if:
 (a) in conducting the survey, there would be a conflict of interest between the person's duties as an accredited marine surveyor and any other interests or duties of the person; or
 (b) the surveyor, or a person the surveyor is related to, owns or occupies any part of the vessel.
 (2) For this section, a surveyor is related to a person if the surveyor:
 (a) is the person's spouse, de facto partner, child, parent, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew or cousin; or
 (b) has a contractual arrangement with the person that might reasonably be seen to give rise to a conflict between the surveyor's duties as a surveyor and the surveyor's interests under the arrangement; or
 (c) is a private marine surveyor and is:
 (i) an employer, partner or employee of the person; or
 (ii) employed by the same employer as the person.
 (3) This section does not apply to a survey by an accredited marine surveyor of the surveyor's own vessel design in the category of surveying "initial survey—plan approval".