Mercantile Marine Act, 1955

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Number 29 of 1955.

MERCANTILE MARINE ACT, 1955.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PRELIMINARY AND GENERAL.

Section
1.	Short title.
2.	Interpretation.
3.	Non-application of this Act.
4.	Power to Minister to prescribe fees.
5.	Collection and disposal of fees.
6.	Laying of orders, rules and regulations before Houses of the Oireachtas.
7.	Expenses.
8.	Repeals.

Part II .

IRISH SHIPS, NATIONAL COLOURS AND CHARACTER.

9.	Irish ships.
10.	National colours for Irish ships.
11.	Prohibition on hoisting colours other than national colours.
12.	Obligation to hoist national colours.
13.	Penalty for unduly assuming Irish character.
14.	Penalty for concealment of Irish or assumption of foreign character.
15.	National character of ship to be declared before clearance.
16.	Persons qualified to own registered ships.
17.	Registry of State-owned ships.
18.	Obligation to register ships owned by Irish citizens and Irish bodies corporate.
19.	Reciprocating states.
20.	Prohibition of registry and saver for certain ships.
21.	Registry under the law of another country.
22.	Penalty for unqualified person acquiring ownership of Irish ship.
23.	Registrars.
24.	Register book.
25.	Survey and measurement of ship.
26.	Marking of ship.
27.	Application for registry.
28.	Declaration of ownership on registry.
29.	Evidence on first registry.
30.	Entry of particulars in register book.
31.	Documents to be retained by registrar.
32.	Ports of registry.
33.	Certificate of registry.
34.	Custody of certificate.
35.	Penalty for use of improper certificate.
36.	Power to grant new certificate.
37.	Provision for loss of certificate.
38.	Endorsement of change of master on certificate.
39.	Endorsement of change of ownership on certificate.
40.	Delivery up of certificate of ship lost or ceasing to be owned by qualified persons.
41.	Temporary certificate for ships becoming owned by qualified persons abroad.
42.	Temporary passes in lieu of certificates of registry.
43.	Transfer of ship or share.
44.	Declaration of transfer.
45.	Registry of transfer.
46.	Transmission of property in ship on death, bankruptcy, etc.
47.	Order for sale on transmission to unqualified person.
48.	Transfer of ship on sale by order of court.
49.	Power of court to prohibit transfer.
50.	Mortgage of ship or share.
51.	Entry of discharge of mortgage.
52.	Priority of mortgages.
53.	Mortgagee not treated as owner.
54.	Mortgagee to have power of sale.
55.	Mortgage not affected by bankruptcy.
56.	Transfer of mortgages.
57.	Transmission of interest in mortgage on death, bankruptcy, etc.
58.	Powers of mortgage and sale may be conferred by certificate.
59.	Requisites for certificates of mortgage and sale.
60.	Restrictions on certificates of mortgage and sale.
61.	Contents of certificates of mortgage and sale.
62.	Restriction on transfer or mortgage.
63.	Rules as to certificates of mortgage.
64.	Rules as to certificates of sale.
65.	Power of Revenue Commissioners in case of loss of certificate of mortgage or sale.
66.	Revocation of certificates of mortgage and sale.
67.	Rules as to name of ship.
68.	Power to refuse registry under particular name.
69.	Registry of alterations.
70.	Regulations for registry of alteration.
71.	Power to inquire into the title of a registered ship to be registered.
72.	Registry anew on change of ownership.
73.	Procedure for registry anew.
74.	Transfer of registry.
75.	Restrictions on re-registration of abandoned ships.
76.	Regulations restricting closing or transfer of registry.
77.	Provision for cases of infancy or other incapacity.
78.	Notice of trusts not received.
79.	Equities not excluded by Act.
80.	Liability of owners.
81.	Ship's managing owner or manager to be registered.
82.	Power of registrar to dispense with declarations and other evidence.
83.	Mode of making declarations.
84.	Inspection of register book.
85.	Documents admissible in evidence.
86.	Forms of documents and instructions as to registry.
87.	Instructions by Revenue Commissioners as to duties of their officers under this Act.
88.	Forgery of documents.
89.	False declarations concerning ownership, etc., of ships.
90.	Proceedings on forfeiture of ship.
91.	Ascertainment of tonnage of ships to be registered.
92.	Tonnage once ascertained to be the tonnage of ship.
93.	Space occupied by deck cargo to be liable to dues.
94.	Surveyors and directions for measurement of ships.
95.	Tonnage of ships of other countries.
96.	Establishment of register office.
97.	Register of seamen.
98.	Misdemeanour.

FIRST SCHEDULE

Enactments Repealed

SECOND SCHEDULE

Ports of Registry

THIRD SCHEDULE

Documents of which the forms are to be directed by the Revenue Commissioners and consented to by the Minister

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Number 29 of 1955.

MERCANTILE MARINE ACT, 1955.

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE NATIONAL CHARACTER, OWNERSHIP AND REGISTRY OF IRISH SHIPS, FOR THE MORTGAGE, SALE, TRANSFER AND MEASUREMENT OF TONNAGE OF SUCH SHIPS, AND TO PROVIDE FOR OTHER MATTERS CONNECTED WITH THE MATTERS AFORESAID. [22nd December, 1955.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—

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