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Effect of load line certificates of certain countries.
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28.—(1) If, in the case of any country or territory outside the State, it appears to the Government—
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(a) that the provisions which, as part of the law of that country or territory, have effect for marking ships with load lines, and for the issue of certificates in respect of ships so marked, are based on the same principles as the corresponding provisions of this Act and of any rules or regulations under this Act and are equally effective, and
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(b) that provision has been, or in pursuance of any agreement will be, made by the law of that country or territory for recognising Irish load line certificates as having the like effect in ports of that country or territory as certificates issued under the provisions referred to in the preceding paragraph,
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the Government may by order direct (subject to the next following subsection) that certificates issued under those provisions shall have the like effect for the purposes of this Act as if they were Irish load line certificates.
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(2) An order under subsection (1) of this section shall not have effect in relation to any ship which—
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(a) plies on international voyages, and
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(b) is a ship of a Convention country, and
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(c) is either an existing ship of not less than one hundred and fifty tons gross tonnage or a new ship of not less than twenty-four metres in length.
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