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To require compliance with the IRPCAS requirements for lights and fog signals, the
following words, or their equivalent, must be included in the notice of race or sailing
instructions:

Lights and fog signals shall comply with the International Regulations for Preventing
Collisions at Sea (IRPCAS) and are required at all times in conditions of limited
visibility. Lights shall be shown at all times between [local sunset and sunrise] [xx:xx
and yy:yy]. This changes Racing Rules of Sailing rule 48.1.

To enable the race committee to protest a boat for a breach of the IRPCAS or
government right-of-way rules in an incident with a vessel not racing:

Add to RRS 60.2:

(d) protest a boat for a breach of the IRPCAS or government right-of-way rules with
respect to a vessel not racing as a result of information received from any source [unless
that source could itself protest the boat].

To enable redress to be given to a boat suffering injury or damage in an incident with
another vessel when the IRPCAS or government right-of-way rules apply between
them:

RRS 62.1(b) is deleted and replaced by:

(b) Injury or physical damage because of the action of a boat that:
(1) when the rules of Part 2 applied between them was breaking one of those
rules; or

(2) when the IRPCAS or government right-of-way rules applied between them
was required to keep clear;

When any of the above are included in the sailing instructions and the information would
help competitors decide whether to attend the event or will be needed before the sailing
instructions become available, it should also be stated in the notice of race.

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