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Obligation to hoist national colours.
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12.—(1) The proper national colours shall be hoisted on an Irish ship—
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(a) on a signal being made to her by a ship of the Naval Service of the Defence Forces under the command of a commissioned officer of that Service, and
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(b) on entering or leaving a port outside the State, and
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(c) if the ship is of fifty tons gross tonnage or upwards, on entering or leaving a port in the State.
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(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to a fishing boat duly entered in the fishing boat register and lettered and numbered in accordance with Part IV of the Act of 1894.
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(3) Where there is a contravention of this section the master of the ship concerned shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on summary conviction thereof, to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.
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