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

Modification of existing provisions for exemption of ships not registered in Saorstát Eireann.

21.—(1) The proviso to section four of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1906 , and any Orders in Council thereunder which have the force of law in Saorstát Eireann shall, on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, cease to apply to Safety Convention passenger steamers plying on international voyages.

(2) Section two hundred and eighty-four of the Principal Act (which provides for the recognition of passenger steamers' certificates granted in any part of the British Commonwealth of Nations) and any Order in Council thereunder which has the force of law in Saorstát Eireann and section three hundred and sixty-three of that Act (which provides for the exemption of passenger steamers not registered in any part of the British Commonwealth of Nations from survey) shall, on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, cease to apply to Safety Convention passenger steamers plying on international voyages.

Miscellaneous Provisions for Furthering Safety of Life at Sea.