Petition Make our Waters Safe- Licensing and Alcohol Regulation of Watercraft

The Railways & Transportation Safety Act of 2003 in Section 80 already starts to cover the control of being under the influence, all it needs is to be signed by the Minister of Shipping (Robert Goodwill MP) for it to be enforced. This can then also be expanded into licensing watercraft.

More details

British Waters are one of only a few that don’t require a license to operate leisure craft on the water, nor is there any regulation on being under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Most European countries, Australia and the USA all require a license to operate a vessel on the water. The US Coastguard name alcohol in their top five contributing factors of accidents.
Lives at sea matter. We have legislation for our roads, why not our waters.
For more info: www.facebook.com/makeourwaterssafe

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

42 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 42 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Show on a map the geographical breakdown of signatures by constituency

10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 25 February 2017
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.