Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act, 1952

Further provisions as to radio navigational aids.

19.—(1) The Minister may make rules prescribing—

(a) the requirements that radio navigational aids, other than direction-finders, shall comply with if they are carried on board ships registered in the State, including requirements relating to their position and method of fitting;

(b) the requirements that apparatus designed for the purpose of transmitting or reflecting signals to or from radio navigational aids shall comply with, being apparatus in the State, or off the shores of the State and maintained from the State.

(2) If any ship registered in the State proceeds, or attempts to proceed, to sea carrying radio navigational aids not complying with the rules made under subsection (1) of this section, the owner or master of the ship shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.

(3) If any person establishes or operates any such apparatus as is mentioned in paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of this section, being apparatus that does not comply with the said rules, he shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.