S.I. No. 281/1949 - Merchant Shipping (Certification of Ships' Cooks) Regulations, 1949.

S.I. No. 281 of 1949.

MERCHANT SHIPPING (CERTIFICATION OF SHIPS' COOKS) REGULATIONS, 1949.

I, DANIEL MORRISSEY, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 12 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1947 (No. 46 of 1947), hereby make the following regulations :

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Certification of Ships' Cooks) Regulations, 1949.

2. In these Regulations—

the word " approved " means approved by the Minister ;

the expression " foreign-going ship " has the same meaning as in the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 ;

the expression " the Minister " means the Minister for Industry and Commerce ;

the expression " ship's cook " means the person directly responsible for the preparation of meals for the crew of the ship ;

the word " tons " means gross register tons.

3. These regulations apply to every ship which—

(a) is registered in the State, and

(b) is engaged in the transport of cargo or passengers for the purpose of trade, and

(c) is a foreign-going ship.

4. Subject to the subsequent provisions of these Regulations, a person shall not be engaged as a ship's cook on board a ship to which these Regulations relate unless he is the holder of a certificate of qualification as ship's cook.

5. The following provisions shall have effect in relation to certificates of qualification as ship's cook granted for the purposes of these Regulations :

(a) examinations for the certificates shall be held only at approved schools of cookery and the certificates shall be granted only by such schools,

(b) a person shall not be granted a certificate unless—

(i) he is twenty years of age or over,

(ii) he passes an examination in cookery based on approved syllabus, and

(iii) he shows that he has served at sea and that the period of such service is, in case he has attended an approved course of training in cookery before passing the examination, not less than six months or, in any other case, not less than two years.

6. (1) A certificate by the Minister that a seaman has had a satisfactory record of two years' service as ship's cook before the 1st day of January, 1950, shall be accepted as equivalent to a certificate under Article 5 of these Regulations for the purpose of engagement as ship's cook on foreign-going ships of under 1,000 tons.

(2) A certificate referred to in subsection (2) of section 27 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1906, and held on the 1st day of January, 1950, shall be accepted as equivalent to a certificate under Article 5 of these Regulations.

7. A certificate of qualification as ship's cook granted by an authority recognised by the government of another State shall be accepted as equivalent to a certificate under Article 5 of these Regulations if the Minister has so directed on being satisfied that every certificate so granted is granted on principles ensuring that the holder has adequate qualifications for service as ship's cook.

8. Article 4 of these Regulations shall not apply in relation to—

(a) a voyage or series of voyages which the Minister exempts from that Article on being satisfied that a holder of a certificate of qualification as ship's cook is not obtainable for engagement on the ship for that voyage or series of voyages and that a substitute is engaged, or

(b) a voyage beginning before the 1st day of January, 1950, of a foreign-going ship of under 1,000 tons.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 31st day of October, 1949.

DANIEL MORRISSEY,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.