Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Act 2014

Prohibition on concealment of Irish character or assuming of foreign character

38. If the master or owner of an Irish ship does anything or permits anything to be done, or carries or permits to be carried any papers or documents, with intent—

(a) to conceal the Irish national character of the ship from any person entitled by law to enquire into the ship’s national character, or

(b) to deceive any such person, or

(c) to assume a foreign character,

he or she commits an offence.