CYA Messenger September 2013 | Page 45

Part 5 PROTESTS, REDRESS, HEARINGS, MISCONDUCT AND APPEALS different protest committee. When the national authority decides that there shall be a new hearing, it may appoint the protest committee. 71.3 When from the facts found by the protest committee the national authority decides that a boat that was a party to a protest hearing broke a rule, it shall penalize her, whether or not that boat or that rule was mentioned in the protest committee’s decision. The decision of the national authority shall be final. The national authority shall send its decision in writing to all parties to the hearing and the protest committee, who shall be bound by the decision. 71.4 41