S.I. No. 175/1933 - The Merchant Shipping (Validity of Safety Convention and Load Line Convention Certificates) Regulations, 1933.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1933. No. 175.

THE MERCHANT SHIPPING (VALIDITY OF SAFETY CONVENTION AND LOAD LINE CONVENTION CERTIFICATES) REGULATIONS, 1933.

MERCHANT SHIPPING.

THE MERCHANT SHIPPING (VALIDITY OF SAFETY CONVENTION AND LOAD LINE CONVENTION CERTIFICATES) REGULATIONS, 1933, DATED THE 18TH DECEMBER, 1933, MADE BY THE MINISTER FOR INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE UNDER SECTIONS 16 AND 49 OF THE MERCHANT SHIPPING (SAFETY AND LOAD LINE CONVENTIONS) ACT, 1933 .

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (2) of Section 16 of the Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1933 , that the Minister for Industry and Commerce shall make such regulations as appear to him to be necessary to give effect to Article fifty-five of the International Convention for Safety of Life at Sea signed in London on the 31st day of May, 1929 (hereinafter referred to as the Safety Convention).

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (2) of Section 49 of the said Act that the said Minister shall make such regulations as appear to him to be necessary for the purpose of giving effect to Article seventeen of the International Load Line Convention signed in London on the 5th day of July, 1930 (hereinafter referred to as the Load Line Convention).

AND WHEREAS the said Minister considers that the following regulations should be made to give effect to the said articles of the said Conventions.

NOW, THEREFORE, the Minister for Industry and Commerce in pursuance of the powers conferred on him by the said sub-sections of the said sections of the said Act and in the exercise of all other powers him in this behalf enabling hereby makes the following regulations:—

1. These regulations may be cited for all purposes as the Merchant Shipping (Validity of Safety Convention and Load Line Convention Certificates) Regulations, 1933.

2. Words and expressions defined or established by the Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1933 , shall have the same meanings where they occur in these Regulations as in that Act.

3. The Interpretation Act, 1923 , applies to the interpretation of these regulations in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

4. A certificate issued under the Safety Convention or a certificate issued under the Load Line Convention and which is held by a Safety Convention ship or a Load Line Convention ship (as the case may be), not registered in Saorstát Eireann shall comply with the following conditions in order to be valid in Saorstát Eireann:—

(a) Such certificate must show that it has been issued by or under the authority of the Government of the country in which the ship is registered or, at the request of that Government, by the Government of another country to which the relative Convention applies.

(b) Such certificate, when issued by the Government of another country as aforesaid, must contain a statement to the effect that it has been issued at the request of the Government of the country in which the ship is registered.

(c) Such certificate must be in the form required by the relative Convention and must be drawn up in the official language or languages of the country where it was issued.

(d) Such certificate must show that it has been issued for a period not exceeding one year in the case of a certificate issued under the Safety Convention, and not exceeding five years in the case of a certificate issued under the Load Line Convention, and that it has not expired.

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister for Industry and Commerce.

This 18th day of December, in the Year 1933.

(Signed) JOHN LEYDON, Secretary,

Department of Industry and Commerce.