Notice is hereby given to the voting Members of the Victorian Kite Boarding Association, operating as Kiteboarding Victoria (KBV), that the Annual General Meeting of the association will be held in the first floor Boardroom at the St Kilda RSL, 88 Acland St, St Kilda on Sunday 1st August 2010 commencing at 4:00pm.

A comprehensive notice of the AGM including the AGM Agenda can be viewed or downloaded here:
2010-11 AGM Infopack

By order of the KBV Committee.

COMMITTEE NOMINATIONS
If you wish to make a nomination for election of officers and ordinary members of the committee, please complete a nomination form and email as an attachment or send it (details below) to be received not later than 10am on Monday 26th July 2010.

UNABLE TO ATTEND? -> PROXY ARRANGEMENT
If you are unable to attend the AGM, please complete a proxy form and email or send it (details below) to be received not later than 5pm on Friday 30th July 2010.

Mail to:

The Secretary,
Kiteboarding Victoria
P O Box 168, Caulfield South
Victoria 3162

secretary@kbv.org.au

The rule is published (i.a.) on the Energy Safe Victoria web site under LEGISLATION & REGULATIONS - Electricity Safety (Installations) and can be downloaded as a pdf or Microsoft Word document.

Part 3, Division 2 (Duties of the Public) states:

306 Aircraft, kites etc.
(1) A person must not launch, release, operate, fly or land any aircraft, glider, hang glider, hot air balloon, parachute, mechanically propelled model aircraft, model glider or kite within 45 metres of a relevant installation that is above the ground.
Penalty: 10 penalty units.
(2) Subregulation (1) does not apply to a person who lands an aircraft, glider, hang glider, hot air balloon or parachute if the particular circumstances reasonably necessitated the landing by the person.

307 Entangled objects
A person must not pull or interfere with any object resting on or entangled in any relevant installation unless the action is reasonably necessary to prevent or reduce injury to a person or damage to property.
Penalty: 10 penalty units.

It is general knowledge amongst kiters that kiting and powerlines do not mix - that the regulation exists is probably news to a few BUT the point is that is does exist and it is our responsibility to be aware of it.