Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1933

Load line certificates of Convention ships not registered in Saorstát Eireann.

49.—(1) The Minister may, at the request of the Government of a country to which the Load Line Convention applies, issue a Load Line Convention certificate in respect of an international load line ship of that country if he is satisfied in like manner as in the case of a Saorstát Eireann ship that he can properly issue the certificate, and where a certificate is issued at such a request, it shall contain a statement that it has been so issued.

(2) With a view to determining the validity in Saorstát Eireann of certificates purporting to have been issued in accordance with the Load Line Convention in respect of Load Line Convention ships not registered in Saorstát Eireann, the Minister shall make such regulations as appear to him to be necessary for the purpose of giving effect to Article seventeen of the Load Line Convention, and, for the purpose of the provisions hereafter contained in this Part of this Act relating to Load Line Convention ships not registered in Saorstát Eireann, the expression “a valid Load Line Convention certificate” means a certificate complying with such of those regulations as are applicable in the circumstances.