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Uimhir 42 de 1933.
ACHT LOINGIS CHEANNAÍOCHTA (CONVENSIÚIN UM SHÁBHÁLTACHT AGUS UM UALACH-LÍNE), 1933.
CUID I.
Sabhaltacht Anama ar Muir.
Déanamh agus Suirbhéireachtaí.
Rialacháin um dhéanamh agus um Shuirbhéireacht chun éifeachta do thabhairt do Chaibidil II den Chonvensiún um Shábháltacht.
1.—(1) Beidh sna rialacháin um dhéanamh is infheidhmithe maidir le galtáin phaisnéara théigheann ar thurusanna eadarnáisiúnta na héilithe sin a chífear don Aire bhéarfaidh éifeacht do sna forálacha bhaineann le déanamh, le meaisínteacht, le fearas agus le mareáil ualach-línte agus atá i gCaibidil II den Chonvensiún um Shábháltacht agus sna Rialacháin dá dtagartar sa Chaibidil sin (ach amháin sa mhéid go ndeintear ar shlí eile éifeacht do thabhairt do sna forálacha san leis na hAchtanna Loingis Cheannaíochta):
Ach—
(a) féadfaidh an tAire aon ghaltán paisnéara do rinneadh roimh an gcéad lá d'Iúl, naoi gcéad déag a haon triochad (nách galtán do haistríodh chun seirbhíse paisnéara an dáta san no dá éis) d'áireamh mar ghaltán atá do réir aon éilimh den tsórt san más deimhin leis an Aire go ndearnadh pé nithe, más éinní é, do bhí réasúnta agus dob fhéidir a dhéanamh, go ndearnadh san chun go mbeadh an galtán do réir an éilimh sin;
(b) féadfaidh an tAire, maidir le galtáin phaisnéara théigheann ar aon chósta-thurus eadarnáisiúnta, aon éileamh den tsórt san do mhaolú más deimhin agus sa mhéid gur deimhin leis an fionntar ina dtéigheann galtáin phaisnéara théigheann ar an turus san do bheith de shaghas do bhéarfadh é bheith mí-réasúnta no neariachtanach a chur mar cheangal galtáin a théigheann ar an turus san do bheith do réir an éilimh sin;
(c) féadfaidh an tAire, maidir le galtáin a bheidh de thurus na huaire ag gabháil d'aon trádáil phaisnéara ina mbeid ag iompar mórán paisnéirí gan chóir chodlata acu, aon éileamh den tsórt san do mhaolú más deimhin leis nách féidir do ghaltáin a bhíonn ag gabháil don trádáil sin déanamh do réir an éilimh sin agus san sa mhéid gur deimhin leis gur gá, toise cúrsaí na trádála, maolú do dhéanamh; agus
(d) féadfaidh an tAire, maidir le haon ghaltán a théigheann ar ghearr-thurusanna eadarnáisiúnta, maolú do dhéanamh ar aon cheann d'éilithe na rialachán um dhéanamh do bheireann éifeacht d'fhorálacha an Chonvensiúin um Shábháltacht agus atá i Rialacháin IX, X, XV agus XIX den Choinvensiún san más deimhin agus sa mhéid gur deimhin leis an Aire ná fuil an t-éileamh san réasúnta agus nách féidir déanamh dá réir i gcás an ghaltáin sin.
(2) Má chítear don Aire—
(a) galtáin phaisinéara théigheann ar aon turus eadarnáisiúnta do dhul i ró-fhionntar de dheascaibh cúrsaí síona agus tráchta, agus
(b) gur féidir, toisc a laighead atá an cion spáis atá ceaptha do last in aon ghaltán do rinneadh tar éis an deichiú lá fichead de Mheitheamh, naoi gcéad déag a haon triochad, no do haistríodh chun seirbhíse paisnéara tar éis an dáta san, níos mó fo-ranna do bheith sa ghaltán ná mar is gá do réir an Chonvensiúin um Shábháltacht;
ordóidh an tAire do shuirbhéir luinge deimhin do dhéanamh de, sara ndéarfaidh i ndearbhú suirbhéireachta go bhfuil an galtán oiriúnach ar dhul ar an turus san, go bhfuil an oiread fo-ranna sa bhreis sa ghaltán a chítear don Aire is féidir agus is oiriúnach a bheith ann ar mhaithe le sábháltacht.
(3) Beidh sna rialacháin um shuirbhéireacht is infheidhmithe maidir le galtáin phaisnéara théigheann ar thurusanna eadarnáisiúnta na héilithe sin a chífear don Aire bhéarfaidh éifeacht do sna forálacha bhaineann le suirbhéireachtaí agus atá i gCaibidil II den Chonvensiún um Shábháltacht agus sna Rialacháin dá dtagartar sa Chaibidil sin (ach amháin sa mhéid go ndeintear ar shlí eile éifeacht do thabhairt do sna forálacha san leis na hAchtanna Loingis Cheannaíochta).
Leasuithe maidir le dearbhuithe suirbhéireachta.
2.—(1) In ionad na mion-innste a héilítear le mír (d) d'fho-alt (3) d'alt a dhá chéad a dó seachtód den Phríomh-Acht do luadh i ndearbhú suirbhéireachta dhéanfaidh suirbhéir luinge alos galtáin phaisnéara luadhfar sa dearbhú san na turusanna no an saghas turus gurb é breithiúntas an tsuirbhéara go bhfuil an galtán, chó fada agus théigheann a déanamh agus a fearas, oiriúnach ar dhul ortha.
(2) In ionad na mion-innste a héilítear le mír (e) d'fho-alt (4) den alt san do luadh i ndearbhú suirbhéireachta dhéanfaidh suirbhéir innealltóireachta alos galtáin phaisnéara luadhfar sa dearbhú san na turusanna no an saghas turus gurb é breithiúntas an tsuirbhéara go bhfuil an galtán, chó fada agus théigheann a meaisínteacht, oiriúnach ar dhul ortha.
(3) Má sé breithiúntas aon tsuirbhéara den tsórt san go bhfuil galtán paisnéara oiriúnach ar dhul ar thurusanna cadarnáisiúnta agus gan ach trádáil speisialta phaisnéara ar siúl aice, luadhfar an méid sin ina dearbhú suirbhéireachta.
Longa d'atharú agus suirbhéireachtaí breise.
3.—(1) Déanfaidh únaer no máistir galtáin phaisnéara le n-a mbaineann an t-alt so, chó luath agus is féidir é tar éis aon atharú do dhéanamh ar chabhail no ar fhearas no ar mheaisínteacht an ghaltáin a dheineann deifir d'éifeachtúlacht an chéanna no d'intseoltacht an ghaltáin, fógra i scríbhinn, ina mbeidh eolas iomlán i dtaobh an atharuithe, do thabhairt don Aire agus, mara dtugtar fógra amhlaidh, beidh únaer no máistir an ghaltáin ciontach i gcionta fén alt so agus ar a chiontú ann ar an slí achmair dlighfear fíneáil ná raghaidh thar caoga púnt do chur air.
(2) Má bhíonn cúis ag an Aire chun a chreidiúint gur thárla, o rinneadh an dearbhú suirbhéireachta deiridh alos galtáin phaisnéara le n-a mbaineann an t-alt so—
(a) aon atharú den tsórt san roimhráite do dhéanamh ar chabhail no ar fhearas no ar mheaisínteacht an ghaltáin; no
(b) aon díobháil do dhéanamh do chabhail no d'fhearas no do mheaisínteacht an ghaltáin no an céanna do bheith nea-dhóthanach ar aon slí eile;
féadfaidh an tAire, gan dochar dá chomhachta fé alt a dhá chéad a naoi seachtód den Phríomh-Acht, a chur mar cheangal suirbhéireacht do dhéanamh arís ar an ngaltán sa mhéid is oiriúnach leis agus, mara ndeintear do réir an cheangail sin, féadfaidh deimhniú ar bith a bheidh tugtha amach alos an ghaltáin, fé alt a dhá chéad a ceathair seachtód den Phríomh-Acht no fén gCuid seo den Acht so, do chur ar nea-mbrí.
(3) Baineann an t-alt so le gach galtán paisnéara, pe'ca cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann di no nách eadh, go mbeidh aon deimhniú den tsórt san roimhráite i bhfeidhm ina taobh de thurus na huaire, agus chun críche an ailt seo foluíonn an focal “atharú,” maidir le cabhail no le fearas no le meaisínteacht ghaltáin, athnuachaint do dhéanamh ar aon chuid den chéanna.
Gléasanna Tárrthála.
Rialacha um ghléasanna tárrthála chun éifeacht do thabhairt do Chaibidil III den Chonvensiún um Shábháltacht.
4.—Beidh sna rialacha um ghléasanna tárrthála is infheidmithe maidir le galtáin phaisnéara théigheann ar thurusanna eadarnáisiúnta na héilithe sin a chífear don Aire bhéarfaidh éifeacht d'fhorálacha Caibidile III den Chonvensiún um Shábháltacht agus d'fhorálacha na Rialachán dá dtagartar sa Chaibidil sin (ach amháin sa mhéid go ndeintear ar shlí eile éifeacht do thabhairt do sna forálacha san leis na hAchtanna Loingis Cheannaíochta):
Ach—
(a) féadfaidh an tAire, ar pé coinníollacha is oiriúnach leis, aon ghaltán do rinneadh roimh an gcéad lá d'Iúl, naoi gcéad déag a haon triochad, do shaoradh o aon éileamh den tsórt san, más deimhin agus sa mhéid gur deimhin leis nách féidir déanamh do réir an éilimh sin no nách éileamh réasúnta é i gcás an ghaltáin sin;
(b) féadfaidh an tAire, maidir le galtáin phaisnéara théigheann ar aon chósta-thurus eadarnáisiúnta, aon éileamh den tsórt san do mhaolú más deimhin agus sa mhéid gur deimhin leis an fionntar ina dtéigheann galtáin a théigheann ar an turus san do bheith de shaghas do bhéarfadh é bheith mí-réasúnta no nea-riachtanach na galtáin sin do bheith do réir an éilimh sin;
(c) féadfaidh an tAire, maidir le galtáin phaisnéara bhíonn ag gabháil d'aon trádáil phaisnéara ina mbíd ag iompar mórán paisinéirí gan chóir chodlata acu, féadfaidh, más deimhin leis nách féidir do ghaltáin a bhíonn ag gabháil don trádáil sin déanamh do réir na n-éilithe sin, na héilithe sin do mhaolú i pé slí chífear do is gá no is oiriúnach chun éifeachta do thabhairt d'fhorálacha fo-mhíreanna (a), (b) agus (c) de mhír 5 d'Airtiogal a dó dhéag den Chonvensiún um Shábháltacht;
(d) féadfaidh an tAire, maidir le haon ghaltán paisnéara théigheann ar ghearr-thurusanna eadarnáisiúnta, pé maoluithe do dhéanamh ar na héilithe sin a chífear do bheith údaruithe leis na forálacha den Chonvensiún um Shábháltacht atá i bhfo-mhír (b) de mhir (2) d'Airtiogal a trí déag, i mír (4) de Rialachán XXXVI, i mír (11) de Rialachán XXXVII, i mír (2) de Rialachán XXXVIII agus i Rialachán XXXIX.
Na hAchtanna Loingis Cheannaíochta do leasú maidir le gléasanna tárrthála.
5.—(1) Beidh mar chuid de chomhacht an Aire fé alt a ceithre chéad a seacht fichead den Phríomh-Acht chun rialacha do dhéanamh mar gheall ar ghléasanna tárrthála comhacht chun rialacha do dhéanamh i dtaobh gach ní no éinní acu so leanas, eadhon:—
(a) báid, báid tárrthála, raftaí tárrthála agus feisteas snámhach do mharcáil i dtreo go dtaisbeánfar cad is tuisí dhóibh agus cadé an méid daoine a húdaruítear d'iompar ortha;
(b) fóirne do cheapadh i gcóir bád agus i gcóir bád tárrthála agus cáilíochtaí agus deimhnithe fear báid tárrthála;
(c) an socrú bheidh le déanamh chun na bpaisnéirí agus na fuirinne do bhailiú le chéile agus chun iad do chur ar bord na mbád agus na mbád tárrthála (le n-a n-áirmhítear socrú i dtaobh páirteanna deifriúla den luing do shoillsiú agus i dtaobh na slí chun dul isteach ionta san agus chun dul amach asta);
(d) bád-drilleáil do chleachtadh;
(e) dualgaisí áirithe do cheapadh do gach ball den fhuirinn in aghaidh cáis phráinne;
(f) na modhanna bheidh le húsáid agus na gléasanna bheidh le hiompar chun tóiteáin do chose, do bhrath agus do mhúchadh;
(g) an méid agus an saghas gléasanna teilgthe téide bheidh le hiompar agus modh déanta na ngléasanna san.
(2) Déanfar fo-alt (1) d'alt a ceithre chéad agus triocha den Phríomh-Acht (fo-alt tré n-a bhforchuirtear pionóisí mar gheall ar theip i ndéanamh do réir na rialacha um ghléasanna tárrthála) do leasú tríd an mír seo leanas do chur isteach i ndiaidh míre (d) den fho-alt san:—
“ (e) if any provision of the rules for life-saving appliances applicable to the ship is contravened or not complied with.”
(3) Cuirfear an t-alt so leanas in ionad ailt a ceithre chéad a haon triochad den Phríomh-Acht:—
“ 431.—(1) A surveyor of ships may inspect any ship for the purpose of seeing that the rules for life-saving appliances have been complied with in her case, and for the purpose of any such inspection shall have all the powers of an Inspector of the Department of Industry and Commerce under this Act.
(2) If the surveyor finds that the rules for life-saving appliances have not been complied with, he shall give written notice to the owner or master stating in what respect the said rules have not been complied with, and what, in his opinion, is required to rectify the matter.
(3) Every notice so given shall be communicated in manner directed by the Minister to the Chief Officer of Customs of any port at which the ship may seek to obtain a clearance or transire, and a clearance or transire shall not be granted to the ship and the ship shall be detained until a certificate under the hand of a surveyor of ships is produced to the effect that the matter has been rectified.”
(4) Déanfar fo-alt (4) d'alt a dhá chéad a dó seachtód den Phríomh-Acht (fo-alt a bhaineann leis na ráitisí bheidh le cur sa dearbhú suirbhéireachta dhéanfaidh suirbhéir innealltóireachta) do leasú tré sna focail “appliances for the prevention, detection and extinction of fire” do chur i mír (c) dhe in ionad na bhfocal “fire hose,” agus scuirfidh fo-alt (2) d'alt a dhá chéad a cúig ochtód den Phríomh-Acht d'éifeacht do bheith aige.
(5) Déanfar fo-alt (1) d'alt a naoi den Merchant Shipping Act, 1906, (fo-alt tré n-a gceangailtear ar mháistir gach luinge le Saorstát Éireann gach ócáid ar a gcleachtuítear bad-drilleáil ar bórd na luinge do luadh sa leabhar turuis oifigiúil) do leasú tré sna focail “and if, in the case of a passenger steamer, boat drill is not practised on board the ship in any week, the master shall enter a statement of the reasons why boat drill was not practised in that week” do chur isteach i ndeireadh an fho-ailt sin.
Radio-Thelegrafaíocht.
Rialacha radiothelegrafaíochta chun éifeachta do thabhairt do Chaibidil IV den Chonvensiún um Shábháltacht.
6.—(1) Beidh sna rialacha radio-thelegrafaíochta is infheidhmithe maidir le longa théigheann ar thurusanna eadarnáisiúnta na héilithe sin a chífear don Aire, tar éis do dul i gcomhairle leis an Aire Puist agus Telegrafa, bhéarfaidh éifeacht d'fhorálacha Caibidile IV den Chonvensiún um Shábháltacht (ach amháin sa mhéid go ndeintear ar shlí eile éifeacht do thabhairt do sna forálacha san leis na hAchtanna Loingis Cheannaíochta).
(2) Eileofar fós leis na rialacha radio-thelegrafaíochta go mbeidh (tar éis pé dáta, nách déanaí ná an chéad lá d'Eanar naoi gcéad déag a cúig triochad, a hordófar leis na rialacha) mar chuid den fhearas radio-thelegrafaíochta a cuirfear ar ghaltáin phaisnéara, go mór-thonnáiste de chúig míle tonna no os a chionn san, radio-chompás, mar a héilítear le hAirtiogal a seacht is dachad agus le mír 17 d'Airtiogal a haon triochad den Chonvensiún um Shábháltacht.
An Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraphy) Act, 1919, do leasú.
7.—(1) Beidh mar chuid de chomhacht an Aire chun rialacha do dhéanamh, i gcomhairle leis an Aire Puist agus Telegrafa, fé fho-alt (2) d'alt a haon den Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraphy) Act, 1919, comhacht chun rialacha do dhéanamh—
(a) á chur mar cheangal ar mháistir luinge na mion-innste sin, i dtaobh an fhearais radio-thelegrafaíochta d'oibriú agus i dtaobh na seirbhíse radio-thelegrafaíochta do choinneáil ar siúl, a luadhfar sna rialacha do chur sa leabhar turuis oifigiúil; agus
(b) á shocrú cadiad na deimhnithe bheidh ag oibritheoirí agus ag fairtheoirí agus cadiad dualgaisí na ndaoine sin.
(2) Má theipeann ar mháistir luinge le Saorstát Éireann déanamh do réir aon cheangail den tsórt san, no má dheineann oibritheoir no fairtheoir ar bith ar aon luing den tsórt san na rialacha san do shárú, beidh sé ciontach i gcionta fén alt so agus ar a chiontú ann ar an slí achmair dlighfear fíneáil ná raghaidh thar deich bpúint do chur air.
(3) Ní dhéanfaidh an tAire, do réir na gcomhacht a bronntar air leis an Acht san, aon long a théigheann ar thurusanna eadarnáisiúnta do shaoradh o sna hoblagáidí forchuirtear leis an Acht san mara bhfeictear do saoradh na luinge o sna hoblagáidí sin do bheith údaruithe le mír (2) d'Airtiogal a seacht fichead, no le hAirtiogal a hocht fichead, den Chonvensiún um Shábháltacht
(4) Chun crícheanna fo-ailt (2) d'alt a trí den Acht san beidh leis an bhfocal “paisnéirí” an brí céanna atá leis an bhfocal “passengers” chun crícheanna Coda III den Phríomh-Acht.
Suirbhéirí radiothelegrafaíochta do cheapadh.
8.—Féadfar duine bheidh ceaptha chun bheith ina shuirbhéir loingis fé alt a seacht gcéad a ceathair fichead den Phríomh-Acht do cheapadh mar shuirbhéir radio-thelegrafaíochta:
Ach ní déanfar feidhmeanna an Aire fén alt san maidir le suirbhéirí loingis ní déanfar iad san d'fheidhmiú maidir le suirbhéirí radio-thelegrafaíochta ach amháin le haontú an Aire Puist agus Telegrafa.
Suirbhéirí radiothelegrafaíochta do dhéanamh suirbhéireachta ar ghaltáin phaisnéara.
9.—(1) I gcás gach suirbhéireachta déanfar tar éis tosach feidhme na Coda so den Acht so maidir le galtán faraige ná beidh saor fén Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraphy) Act, 1919, o sna hoblagáidí forchuirtear leis an Acht san, beidh mar chuid den tsuirbhéireacht ar ghaltán phaisnéara a héilítear leis an bPríomh-Acht suirbhéireacht ag suirbhéir radio-thelegrafaíochta, agus dá réir sin déanfar fo-alt (1) d'alt a dhá chéad a dó seachtód den Acht san do leasú tré sna focail “and, in the case of a sea-going passenger steamer required to be provided with a wireless telegraph installation, by a wireless telegraphy surveyor” do chur isteach sa bhfo-alt san i ndiaidh na bhfocal “engineer surveyor of ships.”
(2) Déanfar an fo-alt so leanas do chur isteach i ndeireadh an ailt sin a dhá chéad a dó seachtód:—
“ (5) The declaration of the wireless telegraphy surveyor shall contain statements of the following particulars, namely:—
(a) the voyages or class of voyages on which, as regards wireless telegraphy, the steamer is fit to ply;
(b) that, having regard to the tonnage of the steamer and the voyages or class of voyages on which she is declared to be fit to ply, the wireless telegraph installation complies with the wireless telegraphy rules;
(c) that the certificates of the wireless telegraphy operators and watchers are such as are required by those rules.”
(3) Déanfar alt a dhá chéad a cúig seachtód den Phríomh-Acht (alt tré n-a ndeintear socrú i gcóir athchomharc chun cúirte suirbhéireachta o dhaoine ar a ngoillfidh an dearbhú suirbhéir eachta dhéanfaidh suirbhéir luinge no suirbhéir innealltóireachta) do leasú tré sna focail “or wireless telegraphy surveyor” do chur isteach i ndiaidh na bhfocal “engineer surveyor” sa dá áit ina bhfuil na focail sin.
Suirbhéirí radiothelegrafaíochta do dhéanamh suirbhéireachta ar longa seachas galtáin phaisnéara.
10.—Déanfaidh únaer gach luinge le Saorstát Éireann, go mór-thonnáiste de mhíle agus sé chéad tonna no os a chionn san, nách galtán paisnéara ná long a bheidh saor fén Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraphy) Act, 1919, o sna hoblagáidí forchuirtear leis an Acht san, déanfaidh, roimh an long do chéaddhul chun faraige ar thurus cadarnáisiúnta o phort i Saorstát Éireann tar éis an chéad lá d'Eanar naoi gcéad déag a ceathair triochad agus fós uair sa bhliain ina dhiaidh sin, a chur fé ndeár go ndéanfaidh suirbhéir radio-thelegrafaíochta suirbhéireacht ar an luing díreach fé is dá mba ghaltán paisnéara í gur ghá fearas radio-thelegrafaíochta do bheith uirthi agus beidh feidhm ag forálacha alt a dhá chéad a dó seachtód, a dhá chéad a trí seachtód, agus a dhá chéad a cúig seachtód den Phríomh-Acht dá réir sin.
Deimhnithe.
Deimhnithe sábháltachta agus deimhnithe saoirse um ghaltáin phaisnéara do thabhairt amach.
11.—(1) Más deimhin leis an Aire, ar dhearbhuithe suirbhéireachta maidir le galtán paisnéara d'fháil do, go bhfuil an galtán do réir na rialachán uile um dhéanamh, na rialacha uile um ghléasanna tárrthála agus na rialacha radio-thelegrafaíochta uile is infheidhmithe maidir le galtáin phaisnéara théigheann ar thurusanna eadarnáisiúnta déanfaidh, ar únaer an ghaltáin dá iarraidh sin, deimhniú sábháltachta do thabhairt amach maidir leis an ngaltán á rá go bhfuil an galtán do réir éilithe an Chonvensiúin um Shábháltacht, agus isé gairmtear feasta sa Chuid seo den Acht so d'aon deimhniú bhéarfar amach fén bhfo-alt so ná “deimhniú sábháltachta generálta.”
(2) Más rud é, ar dhearbhuithe suirbhéireachta d'fháil don Aire maidir le galtán paisnéara go ndearna sé ina cás na rialacháin um dhéanamh no na rialacha um ghléasanna tárrthála do mhaolú do réir na bhforálacha san roimhe seo den Acht so bhaineann le galtáin a théigheann ar ghearr-thurusanna cadarnáisiúnta, gur deimhin leis an Aire an galtán do bheith do réir na rialachán agus na rialacha san agus iad maoluithe amhlaidh, agus fós é do bheith do réir na rialacha radio-thelegrafaíochta is infheidhmithe maidir le galtáin a théigheann ar thurusanna eadarnáisiúnta, déanfaidh an tAire, ar únaer an ghaltáin dá iarraidh sin, deimhniú sábháltachta do thabhairt amach maidir leis an ngaltán á rá go bhfuil an galtán do réir na n-éilithe den Chonvensiún um Shábhál tacht is infheidhmithe maidir le gearr-thurus eadarnáisiúnta, agus isé gairmtear feasta sa Chuid seo den Acht so d'aon deimhniú bhéarfar amach fén bhfo-alt so ná “deimhniú sábháltachta gearr-thuruis.”
(3) Más deimhin leis an Aire, ar dhearbhuithe suirbhéireachta maidir le galtán paisnéara d'fháil do—
(a) go bhfuil an galtán do réir na rialachán uile um dhéanamh agus na rialacha uile um ghléasanna tárrthála is infheidhmithe maidir le galtáin phaisnéara théigheann ar thurusanna eadarnáisiúnta no go bhfuil sí do réir na rialachán agus na rialacha san fé mar a bheid maoluithe ina cás do réir na bhforálacha san roimhe seo den Acht so bhaineann le galtáin a théigheann ar ghearr-thurusanna eadarnáisiúnta, agus fós go bhfuil sí saor, fén Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraphy) Act, 1919, o sna hoblagáidí forchuirtear leis an Acht san; no
(b) go bhfuil an galtán do réir na rialachán um dhéanamh agus na rialacha um ghléasanna tárrthála is infheidhmithe maidir le galtáin a théigheann ar aon chóstathurus eadarnáisiúnta no le galtáin a bhíonn ag gabháil d'aon trádáil speisialta phaisnéara, agus fós go bhfuil sí do réir na rialacha radio-thelegrafaíochta is infheidhmithe maidir le galtáin a théigheann ar thurusanna eadarnáisiúnta no go bhfuil sí saor, fén Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraphy) Act, 1919, o sna hoblagáidí forchuirtear leis an Acht san;
ansan, ar únaer an ghaltáin dá iarraidh sin, bhéarfaidh amach maidir leis an ngaltán—
(i) deimhniú sábháltachta ag luadh na slite ina bhfuil an galtán do réir éilithe an Chonvensiúin um Shábháltacht; agus
(ii) deimhniú saoirse á rá go mbeidh an galtán, faid a bheidh sí ag dul ar na turusanna san agus ag gabháil do thrádála agus do réir na gcoinníollacha (más aon cheann é) a luadhfar sa deimhniú, go mbeidh sí saor ar shlite eile o éilithe an Chonvensiúin sin;
agus isé gairmtear feasta sa Chuid seo den Acht so d'aon deimhniú sábháltachta agus d'aon deimhniú saoirse bhéarfar amach fén bhfo-alt so ná “deimhniú teoranta sábháltachta” agus “deimhniú saoirse galtáin phaisnéara” fé seach.
(4) Chun crícheanna an ailt seo, féadfaidh an tAire—
(a) aon ghaltán paisnéara do rinneadh roimh an gcéad lá d'Iúl, naoi gcéad déag a haon triochad (nách galtán do haistríodh chun seirbhíse paisnéara an dáta san no dá éis) d'áireamh mar ghaltán atá do réir na rialachán um dhéanamh is infheidhmithe maidir leis an gcás; agus
(b) aon ghaltán paisnéara do rinneadh roimh an gcéad lá d'Iúl, naoi gcéad déag a haon triochad, d'áireamh mar ghaltán atá do réir na rialacha um ghléasanna tárrthála is infheidhmithe maidir leis an gcás;
más deimhin leis go ndearnadh pé nithe (más éinní é) do bhí réasúnta agus dob fhéidir a dhéanamh, go ndearnadh san chun go mbeadh an galtán do réir na rialachán no na rialacha san, do réir mar bheidh.
(5) Fé réir na bhforálacha atá anso ina dhiaidh seo sa Chuid seo den Acht so ní bhainfidh forálacha an ailt seo ach le galtáin phaisnéara bheidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann.
Atharú ar dheimhnithe sábháltachta maidir le gléasanna tárrthála.
12.—(1) Más rud é, le linn bheith ar aon turus eadarnáisiúnta do gháltán paisnéara bheidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann agus ’na mbeidh deimhniú sábháltachta i bhfeidhm ina taobh, gur lugha líon iomlán a mbeidh de dhaoine ar bord uirthi ná an líon go n-abartar sa deimhniú san gurb é an líon é go bhfuil gléasanna tárrthála ar an ngaltán ina chóir, féadfaidh an tAire no éinne go n-údarás chuige sin ón Aire, ar mháistir an ghaltáin dá iarraidh sin, memorandum do thabhairt amach á rá cé méid daoine ar fad atá ar bord an ghaltáin ar an turus san agus cadiad na hatharuithe féadfar dá dhruim sin a dhéanamh chun críche an turuis sin ar na mion-innste maidir le gléasanna tárrthála luaidhtear sa deimhniú, agus ceanglófar an memorandum san den deimhniú.
(2) Cuirfear gach memorandum den tsórt san thar n-ais chun an Aire ar bheith críochnuithe don turus le n-a mbaineann agus, mara gcuirtear thar n-ais amhlaidh é, beidh máistir an ghaltáin ciontach i gcionta fén alt so, agus ar a chiontú ann ar an slí achmair dlighfear fíneáil ná raghaidh thar fiche púnt do chur air.
Deimhnithe radiothelegrafaíochta agus deimhnithe saoirse radiothelegrafaíochta do thabhairt amach.
13.—(1) Ar an Aire d'fháil dearbhuithe shuirbhéireachta do rinne suirbhéir radio-thelegrafaíochta maidir le luing le Saorstát Éireann nách galtán paisnéara déanfaidh, más deimhin leis an long do bheith do réir na rialacha radio-thelegrafaíochta is infheidhmithe maidir le longa (seachas galtáin phaisnéara) a théigheann ar thurusanna eadarnáisiúnta, deimhniú do thabhairt amach á rá go bhfuil an long do réir na n-éilithe den Chonvensiún um Shábháltacht a bhaineann le radio-thelegrafaíocht agus isé gairmtear feasta sa Chuid seo den Acht so d'aon deimhniú bhéarfar amach fén bhfo-alt so ná “deimhniú radio-thelegrafaíochta.”
(2) Má deintear aon long den tsórt san do shaoradh, fén Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraphy) Act, 1919, o sna hoblagáidí forchuirtear leis an Acht san, déanfaidh an tAire, ar únaer na luinge dá iarraidh sin, deimhniú saoirse do thabhairt amach á rá go bhfuil an long saortha o sna héilithe den Chonvensiún um Shábháltacht a bhaineann le radio-thelegrafaíocht agus ag luadh na dturus ar a bhfuil agus na gcoinníoll (más aon cheann é) gur fé n-a réir atá an long saortha amhlaidh, agus isé gairmtear feasta sa Chuid seo den Acht so d'aon deimhniú bhéarfar amach fén bhfo-alt so ná “deimhniú saoirse radiothelegrafaíochta.”
Toirmeasc ar dhul chun faraige gan deimhniú.
14.—(1) Ní raghaidh long ar bith le n-a mbaineann an t-alt so chun faraige ar thurus eadarnáisiúnta o phort i Saorstát Éireann tar éis an chéad lá d'Eanar naoi gcéad déag a ceathair triochad mara mbeidh i bhfeidhm maidir leis an luing—
(a) i gcás luinge is galtán paisnéara—
(i) deimhniú sábháltachta generálta; no
(ii) deimhniú sábháltachta gearr-thuruis; no
(iii) deimhniú teoranta sábháltachta agus deimhniú saoirse galtáin phaisnéara, eadhon, deimhniú no deimhnithe is infheidhmithe, do réir téarmaí an chéanna, maidir leis an turus ar a mbeidh an long chun dul agus leis an trádáil dá mbeidh sí ag gabháil de thurus na huaire;
(b) i gcás luinge nách galtán paisnéara—
(i) an deimhniú san no na deimhnithe sin ba ghá ina cás do réir na bhforálacha san roimhe seo den alt so dá mba ghaltán paisnéara í; no
(ii) deimhniú radio-thelegrafaíochta; no
(iii) deimhniú saoirse radio-thelegrafaíochta is infheidhmithe, do réir téarmaí an chéanna, maidir leis an turus ar a mbeidh an long chun dul.
(2) Má théigheann long ar bith le n-a mbaineann an t-alt so chun faraige, no má thugann sí iarracht ar dhul chun faraige, contrárdha don alt so, ansan—
(a) i gcás luinge is galtán paisnéara beidh máistir no únaer an ghaltáin, agus san gan dochar d'aon leigheas no pionós eile fé sna hAchtanna Loingis Cheannaíochta, ciontach i gcionta fén alt so agus ar a chiontú ann ar an slí achmair dlighfear fíneáil ná raghaidh thar deich bpúint do chur air in aghaidh gach paisnéara a hiomparófar ar bord an ghaltáin, agus beidh máistir no únaer aon bháid fhreastail tré n-a dtabharfar paisnéirí ar bórd an ghaltáin ciontach i gcionta fén alt so freisin agus ar a chiontú ann ar an slí achmair dlighfear pionós den tsaghas chéanna do chur air in aghaidh gach paisnéara bhéarfar ar bord amhlaidh; agus
(b) i gcás luinge nách galtán paisnéara beidh máistir no únaer na luinge ciontach i gcionta fén alt so agus ar a chiontú ann ar an slí achmair dlighfear fíneáil ná raghaidh thar céad púnt do chur air.
(3) Déanfaidh máistir gach luinge le n-a mbaineann an t-alt so an deimhniú no na deimhnithe, is gá do réir na bhforálacha san roimhe seo den alt so do bheith i bhfeidhm nuair a raghaidh an long chun faraige, do thaisbeáint don oifigeach custum ar a n-éileofar réiteach don luing le haghaidh turuis eadarnáisiúnta agus ní deonfar réiteach go dtí go ndéanfar an deimhniú no na deimhnithe sin do thaisbeáint amhlaidh agus féadfar an long do chionneáil go dtí go ndéanfar san.
(4) Má luaidhtear i ndeimhniú saoirse galtáin phaisnéara no i ndeimhniú saoirse radio-thelegrafaíochta bhéarfar amach maidir le luing ar bith le n-a mbaineann an t-alt so aon choinníollacha gur fé n-a réir do bhéarfar amach an deimhniú agus má sáruítear na coinníollacha san, beidh máistir no únaer na luinge ciontach i gcionta fén alt so agus ar a chiontú ann ar an slí achmair dlighfear fíneáil ná raghaidh thar céad púnt do chur air.
(5) Baineann an t-alt so le longa le Saorstát Éireann is galtáin phaisnéara no is longa go mór-thonnáiste de mhíle agus sé chéad tonna no os a chionn san.
Forálacha ilghnéitheacha maidir le deimhnithe.
15.—(1) Ní bheidh deimhniú sábháltachta ná deimhniú radiothelegrafaíochta ná deimhniú saoirse bhéarfaidh an tAire amach, ní bheidh san i bhfeidhm ar feadh níos mó ná bliain o dháta a thabhartha amach ná tar éis don Aire fógra do thabhairt d'únaer no do ghníomhaire no do mháistir na luinge, gur ina taobh do tugadh amach an deimhniú, á rá go bhfuil an deimhniú curtha ar ceal ag an Aire.
(2) Má bhíonn long le Saorstát Éireann go mbeidh aon deimhniú den tsórt san tugtha amach ina taobh as láthair o Shaorstát Éireann ar an dáta ar a raghaidh an deimhniú in éag, féadfaidh an tAire no éinne go n-údarás chuige sin ón Aire, má chítear é do bheith ceart agus réasúnta san do dhéanamh, pé faidiú ar an deimhniú do dheonadh do bhéarfaidh uain don luing ar fhilleadh go Saorstát Éireann, ach ní bheidh éifeacht ag aon fhaidiú den tsórt san ar feadh tréimhse is sia ná cúig mhí ón dáta san.
(3) Is i pé fuirm a bheidh orduithe le rialacha ar n-a ndéanamh ag an Aire bheidh gach deimhniú den tsórt san, agus déanfar sna rialacha san pé socrú chítear don Aire is gá chun éifeachta do thabhairt d'fhorálacha Airtiogail a haon caogad den Chonvensiún um Shábháltacht, agus féadfar socrú do dhéanamh ionta chun deimhniú sábháltachta do chur san aon scríbhinn amháin le deimhniú saoirse galtáin phaisnéara.
(4) Féadfaidh éinne go n-údarás ón Aire chuige sin aon deimhniú den tsórt san, agus aon deimhniú saoirse galtáin phaisnéara bheidh curtha san aon scríbhinn amháin le deimhniú sábháltachta, do shighniú thar ceann an Aire, agus beidh deimhniú bhéarfaidh le tuiscint gur mar sin do sighníodh é ionghlactha i bhfianaise díreach fé is dá mba dhuine dá luaidhtear in alt a seacht gcéad a naoi déag den Phríomh-Acht do shighnigh é.
(5) Beidh baint ag na forálacha so leanas den Phríomh-Acht le gach deimhniú agus maidir le gach deimhniú den tsórt san do bhéarfaidh an tAire amach díreach fé mar atá baint acu le deimhniú agus maidir le deimhniú saoirse galtáin phaisnéara, eadhon, alt a dhá chéad a sé seachtód (alt a bhaineann leis an deimhniú do chur chun únaer an ghaltáin), alt a dhá chéad a seacht seachtód (alt a bhaineann leis na táillí bheidh le n'íoc as an deimhniú), alt a dhá chéad a naoi seachtód (alt a bhaineann leis an deimhniú do chur ar ceal), alt a dhá chéad agus ochtó (alt a bhaineann leis an deimhniú do thabhairt suas) agus alt a dhá chéad a haon ochtód (alt a bhaineann leis an deimhniú do phostáil suas sa luing).
(6) Féadfaidh an tAire a iarraidh ar Rialtas tíre le n-a mbaineann an Convensiún um Shábháltacht deimhniú sábháltachta generálta no deimhniú sábháltachta gearr-thuruis no deimhniú radio-thelegrafaíochta do thabhairt amach maidir le luing le Saorstát Éireann, agus deimhniú do bhéarfar amach do réir iarratais den tsórt san agus ina ndéarfar é do bheith tugtha amach amhlaidh beidh éifeacht aige chun crícheanna an Achta so fé is dá mb'é an tAire do bhéarfadh amach é.
Forálacha i dtaobh Long fén gConvensiún um Shábháltacht ná beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann.
Deimhnithe do longa fén gConvensiún ná beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann.
16.—(1) Féadfaidh an tAire, ar Rialtas tíre le n-a mbaineann an Convensiún um Shábháltacht dá iarraidh sin, deimhniú sábháltachta generálta no deimhniú sábháltachta gearr-thuruis no deimhniú radio-thelegrafaíochta do thabhairt amach maidir le luing leis an tír sin más deimhin leis fé mar is gá i gcás luinge le Saorstát Éireann go bhféadfa sé, do réir chirt, an deimhniú do thabhairt amach, agus má bheirtear amach deimhniú ar iarratas den tsórt san déarfar ann é bheith tugtha amach amhlaidh.
(2) D'fhonn a chinneadh an dleathach i Saorstát Éireann do dheimhnithe bheireann le tuiscint iad do bheith tugtha amach do réir an Chonvensiúin um Shábháltacht alos long fén gConvensiún um Shábháltacht ná beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann déanfaidh an tAire pé rialacháin a chífear do is gá chun éifeachta do thabhairt d'Airtiogal a cúig caogad den Chonvensiún um Shábháltacht, agus chun críche na bhforálacha atá ina dhiaidh seo sa Chuid seo den Acht so maidir le longa fén gConvensiún um Shábháltacht ná beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann cialluíonn an abairt “deimhniú dleathach fén gConvensiún um Shábháltacht” deimhniú no deimhnithe bheidh do réir pé rialachán acu san is infheidhmithe maidir leis an gcás.
(3) Má deintear deimhniú dleathach fén gConvensiún um Shábháltacht do thaisbeáint alos galtáin phaisnéara fén gConvensiún um Shábháltacht ná beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann, agus má bhíonn ceangailte den deimhniú memorandum—
(a) ar n-a thabhairt amach ag Rialtas no fé údarás Rialtais na tíre gur léi an galtán; agus
(b) a dheineann atharú chun críche aon turuis áirithe, mar gheall ar an méid daoine ar iompar ar an turus san, ar na mion-innste luaidhtear sa deimhniú maidir le gléasanna tárrthála;
beidh éifeacht ag an deimhniú chun críche an turuis sin fé is dá mbeadh sé atharuithe do réir an mhemorandum.
Atharuithe maidir le suirbhéireacht ar ghaltáin phaisnéara go ndeimhniú fén gConvensiún.
17.—(1) Má deintear deimhniú dleathach fén gConvensiún um Shábháltacht do thaisbeáint alos galtáin phaisnéara fén gConvensiún um Shábháltacht ná beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann—
(a) tuigfear go ndearnadh, i gcás an ghaltáin, cólíonadh ar na forálacha den Phríomh-Acht agus den Acht so bhaineann le suirbhéirí innealltóireachta agus radiothelegrafaíochta do dhéanamh suirbhéireachta ar ghaltáin phaisnéara;
(b) ní bheidh sa tsuirbhéireacht a dhéanfaidh an suirbhéir luinge ach suirbhéireacht chun a fháil amach cadé an líon paisnéirí atá an galtán oiriúnach chun a iompar, agus an dearbhú suirbhéireachta dhéanfaidh an suirbhéir sin ní gá aon mhion-innste bheith ann thar mar atá leagtha amach i mír (e) d'fho-alt (3) d'alt a dhá chéad a dó seachtód den Phríomh-Acht (mír a bhaineann leis an líon paisnéirí sin);
(c) ar dhearbhú den tsórt san d'fháil don Aire bhéarfaidh amach, fé alt a dhá chéad a ceathair seachtód den Phríomh-Acht, deimhniú ná beidh ann ach na mioninnste atá leagtha amach i mír (b) den alt san (mír a bhaineann leis an líon paisnéirí sin), agus deimhniú do bhéarfar amach amhlaidh beidh éifeacht aige mar dheimhniú shaoirse ghaltáin phaisnéara.
(2) Má taisbeántar, maidir le haon ghaltán paisnéara den tsórt san, deimhniú dleathach fén gConvensiún um Shábháltacht, agus fós deimhniú ar n-a thabhairt amach ag Rialtas no fé údarás Rialtais na tíre gur léi an galtán, á thaisbeáint cadé an líon paisnéirí atá an galtán oiriúnach chun a iompar, agus más deimhin leis an Aire gur cinneadh an líon san sa tslí chéanna nách mór ina gcinnfí é i gcás galtáin do bheadh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann, féadfaidh an tAire, más oiriúnach leis é, a shocrú nách gá an tsuirbhéireacht san do dhéanamh ar an ngaltán a luaidhtear sa bhfo-alt deiridh sin roimhe seo agus a ordú go mbeidh éifeacht mar dheimhniú shaoirse ghaltáin phaisnéara ag an deimhniú deiridh sin a luaidhtear.
Príbhléidí ilghnéitheacha galtán paisnéara go ndeimhniú fén gConvensiún.
18.—(1) Má deintear deimhniú dleathach fén gConvensiún um Shábháltacht do thaisbeáint maidir le galtán paisnéara fén gConvensiún um Shábháltacht ná beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann—
(a) beidh an galtán saor o sna hachtacháin seo leanas, eadhon, míreanna (d) agus (f) d'fho-alt (1) d'alt a dhá chéad is nócha den Phríomh-Acht (alt a bhaineann le longa imirce do ghléasadh) agus ailt a ceithre chéad a seacht fichead go ceithre chéad a haon triochad den Acht san (ailt a bhaineann le gléasanna tárrthála); agus
(b) ní tuigfear an galtán do bheith nea-shábhálta chun crícheanna ailt a ceithre chéad a naoi caogad no a ceithre chéad a dó seascad den Phríomh-Acht de dheascaibh locht do bheith ina cabhail no ina fearas no ina meaisínteacht, mara bhfeictear nách féidir don ghaltán dul chun faraige gan na paisnéirí no an fhuireann do bheith i gcontabhairt, toisc gan staid an ghaltáin do bheith ar có-réir nách mór leis na mioninnste luaidhtear sa deimhniú.
Forálacha radiothelegrafaíochta is infheidhmithe maidir le longa go ndeimhniú fén gConvensiún.
19.—(1) Má deintear deimhniú dleathach fén gConvensiún um Shábháltacht do thaisbeáint maidir le luing fén gConvensiún um Shábháltacht ná beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann agus is galtán paisnéara no is long go mór-thonnáiste de mhíle agus sé chéad tonna no os a chionn san, ansan—
(a) más léir ón deimhniú go bhfuil an long saor ar fad o sna forálacha den Chonvensiún um Shabháltacht a bhaineann le radio-thelegrafaíocht beidh an long saor o fhorálacha an Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraphy) Act, 1919;
(b) más léir ón deimhniú ná fuil an long saor ar fad o sna forálacha san den Chonvensiún um Shábháltacht bainfidh na forálacha so leanas den alt so leis an luing in ionad forálacha an Achta san.
(2) Féadfaidh suirbhéir long an long d'iniúchadh chun féachaint an bhfuil an fearas radio-thelegrafaíochta agus líon na n-oibrithcoirí agus na bhfairtheoirí deimhnithe ar bord na luinge ar có-réir nách mór leis na mion-innste luaidhtear sa deimhniú.
(3) Má chítear don tsuirbhéir nách féidir don luing dul chun faraige gan na paisnéirí no an fhuireann do bheith i gcontabhairt, toisc gan an fearas radio-thelegrafaíochta no líon na n-oibritheoirí no na bhfairtheoirí do bheith ar có-réir nách mór leis na mioninnste sin, bhéarfaidh an suirbhéir fógra i scríbhinn don mháistir á chur in úil cád tá in easnamh agus á chur in úil freisin cad is gá, dar leis, chun an easnaimh do leigheas.
(4) Déanfar gach fógra do bhéarfar amhlaidh do chur in úil, i slí ordóidh an tAire, do phríomh-oifigeach custum aon phuirt ina mbeifear ad'iarraidh réiteach no transíré d'fháil don luing, agus fós don oifigeach consulta, don tír gur léi an long, ag an bport no is goire don phort ina mbeidh an long de thurus na huaire, agus ní deonfar réiteach ná transíré don luing go dtí go ndéanfar deimhniú fé láimh suirbhéara long, á rá go bhfuil an t-easnamh leighiste do thaisbeáint agus coinneofar an long go dtí go ndéanfar san.
E de dhualgas deimhniú fén gConvensiún do thaisbeáint.
20.—Déanfaidh máistir gach luinge fén gConvensiún um Shábháltacht ná beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann agus is galtán paisnéara no is long go mór-thonnáiste de mhíle agus sé chéad tonna no os a chionn san deimhniú dleathach fén gConvensiún um Shábháltacht do thaisbeáint don oifigeach custum ar a mbeidh réiteach don luing á éileamh maidir le turus eadarnáisiúnta o phort i Saorstát Éireann tar éis an chéad lá d'Eanar, naoi gcéad déag a ceathair triochad, agus ní dconfar an réiteach go dtí go ndéanfar deimhniú den tsórt san do thaisbeáint amhlaidh agus féadfar an long do choinneáil go dtí go ndéanfar san.
Atharú ar na forálacha atá ann fé láthair maidir le longa nách cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann dóibh do shaoradh.
21.—(1) Scuirfidh an provísó ghabhann le halt a ceathair den Merchant Shipping Act, 1906, maraon le haon Orduithe i gComhairle, fén gcéanna, ag á bhfuil feidhm dhlí i Saorstát Éireann scuirfid an chéad lá d'Eanar, naoi gcéad déag a ceathair triochad, de bhaint do bheith acu le galtáin phaisnéara fén gConvensiún um Shábháltacht a théigheann ar thurusanna eadarnáisiúnta.
(2) Scuirfidh alt a dhá chéad a ceathair ochtód den Phríomh-Acht (alt le n-a ndeintear socrú chun deimhniú galtán paisnéara ar n-a ndeonadh i bpáirt ar bith den Chó-chiníochas Bhriotáineach d'aithint) maraon le haon Ordú i gComhairle, fén gcéanna, ag á bhfuil feidhm dhlí i Saorstát Éireann agus alt a trí chéad a trí seascad den Acht san (alt le n-a ndeintear socrú chun galtán paisnéara ná beidh cláruithe i bpáirt ar bith den Chó-chiníochas Bhriotáineach do shaoradh o shuirbhéireacht) scuirfid, an chéad lá d'Eanar, naoi gcéad déag a ceathair triochad, de bhaint do bheith acu le galtáin phaisnéara fén gConvensiún um Shábháltacht a théigheann ar thurusanna eadarnáisiúnta.
Forálacha Ilghnéitheacha chun Cabhruithe le Sábháltacht Anama ar Muir.
Dualgaisí maidir le dóirse díonmhara agus feistí eile.
22.—Na rialacha atá leagtha amach sa Chéad Sceideal a ghabhann leis an Acht so i dtaobh dóirse díonmhara agus feistí eile, déanfar dá réir i ngach galtán paisnéara bheidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann agus, má deintear aon cheann de sna rialacha san do shárú i gcás aon ghaltáin den tsórt san, beidh máistir an ghaltáin sin ciontach i gcionta fén alt so agus ar a chiontú ann ar an slí achmair dlighfear fíncáil ná raghaidh thar céad púnt do chur air.
Ualach-línte fo-roinne do chur fé uisce.
23.—(1) I gcás—
(a) galtán paisnéara bheidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann do bheith marcálta le hualach-línte fo-roinne, sé sin le rá, ualach-línte thaisbeánann cadé an doimhneas chun ar ceaduithe an galtán do chur, de dhruim ládála, ag féachaint don méid fo-ranna bheidh déanta dhe agus don spás a bheidh ceaptha de thurus na huaire i gcóir paisnéirí; agus
(b) an ualach-líne fho-roinne oiriúnach, sé sin le rá, an ualach-líne fho-roinne is oiriúnach don spás a bheidh ceaptha de thurus na huaire i gcóir paisnéirí ar an ngaltán, do bheith níos ísle ná an ualach-líne thaisbeánann cadé an doimhneas maximum chun ar ceaduithe de thurus na huaire, fé Chuid II den Acht so, an galtán do chur de dhruim ládála;
ní ládálfar an galtán i slí go ndéanfaí an ualach-líne fho-roinne oiriúnach ar gach taobh den ghaltán do chur fé uisce agus gan aon liosta ar an ngaltán.
(2) Má deintear aon ghaltán den tsórt san do ládáil contrárdha don alt so, beidh únaer no máistir an ghaltáin ciontach i gcionta fén alt so agus ar a chiontú ann ar an slí achmair dlighfear fíneáil ná raghaidh thar céad púnt do chur air, maraon le pé fíneáil bhreise, ná raghaidh thar an suim a luaidhtear anso ina dhiaidh seo, is oiriúnach leis an gcúirt do ghearradh, ag féachaint do mhéid an bhisithe do chuaidh no do raghadh ar chumas tuillimh na luinge de dhruim na hualach-líne fo-roinne oiriúnaighe do chur fé uisce.
(3) Ní raghaidh an fhíneáil bhreise sin thar céad púnt in aghaidh gach orlaigh no coda d'orlach do cuireadh an ualach-líne fho-roinne oiriúnach ar gach taobh den luing fé uisce, no do cuirfí fé uisce í dá mba ná beadh aon liosta ar an luing.
(4) Gan dochar d'aon imeachta fé sna forálacha san roimhe seo den alt so, féadfar aon ghaltán den tsórt san a bheidh ládálta contrárdha don alt so do choinneáil go dtí go scuirfidh de bheith ládálta amhlaidh.
(5) Bainfidh na forálacha san roimhe seo den alt so le galtáin phaisnéara, ná beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann, faid a bheid san laistigh d'aon phort i Saorstát Éireann fé mar a bhainfid le galtáin phaisnéara bheidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann.
Nithe atá contabharthach do loingseoireacht do thuairisciú.
24.—(1) Ar mháistir aon luinge le Saorstát Éireann do theangmháil le leac-oighir chontabharthach, le hárthach tréigthe contabharthach, le stoirm theo-chreasach no le héinní eile do bheadh ina chontabhairt díreach do loingseoireacht cuirfidh scéala dá réir sin, ar gach slí bheidh ar fáil aige agus do réir rialacha déanfar chun crícheanna an ailt seo, go dtí longa sa chomharsanacht agus go dtí pé údaráis ar tír a bheidh orduithe leis na rialacháin sin.
(2) Déanfaidh an tAire rialacha chun crícheanna an ailt seo agus déanfar tríotha san pé socrú chífear do is gá chun éifeachta do thabhairt d'fhorálacha Airtiogail a ceathair is dachad (sa mhéid go mbaineann le comharthaí sábháltachta) agus d'fhorálacha Rialacháin XLVI den Chonvensiún um Shábháltacht.
(3) Má theipeann ar mháistir luinge déanamh do réir forálacha an ailt seo beidh sé ciontach i gcionta fén alt so agus ar a chiontú ann ar an slí achmair dlighfear fíneáil ná raghaidh thar caoga púnt do chur air.
(4) Gach duine bheidh i mbun stáisiúin radio-thelegrafaíochta, is ceann fé urláimh an Aire Puist agus Telegrafa no ceann ar n-a bhunú no ar n-a chur suas fé cheadúnas ón Aire Puist agus Telegrafa, agus a gheobhaidh an comhartha bheidh orduithe leis na rialacha san chun a chur in úil go bhfuiltear chun teachtaireachta do chur amach fén alt so, staonfaidh, ar fháil an chomhartha san, o theachtaireachtaí do chur amach go ceann tamaill is leor chun caoi do thabhairt chun na teachtaireachta d'fháil i stáisiúin eile, agus, má éilíonn an tAire amhlaidh, cuirfidh an teachtaireacht ar aghaidh i pé slí éileoidh an tAire, agus tuigfear, maidir le gach ceadúnas ar n-a dheonadh ag an Aire Puist agus Telegrafa fén Acht Radio-Thelegrafaíochta, 1926, é bheith ina choinníoll a ghabhann leis go ndéanfar do réir an fho-ailt seo;
Ach ní chuirfidh éinní sa bhfo-alt so isteach ar aon chomhartha ghuaise no phráinne, bheidh orduithe fén gcéad alt ina dhiaidh seo den Acht so, do chur ar aghaidh tré radio-thelegrafaíocht.
(5) Chun crícheanna an ailt seo cialluíonn an abairt “stoirm theo-chreasach” eascair, saidhneán cuafaidh, gaoth guairneáin, no stoirm eile dá shamhail sin, agus tuigfear máistir luinge do theangmháil le stoirm theo-chreasach má bhíonn cúis aige chun a chreidiúint go bhfuil stoirm den tsórt san ina chomharsanacht.
(6) Scuirfidh an Derelict Vessels (Report) Act, 1896, d'éifeacht do bheith aige.
Forálacha maidir le comharthaí.
25.—(1) Féadfaidh an tAire, le hordú, a ordú cadiad na comharthaí bheidh ina gcomharthaí guaise agus práinne agus tuigfear na comharthaí a hordófar amhlaidh do bheith ina gcomharthaí guaise agus práinne fé seach.
(2) Féadfaidh an tAire rialacha do dhéanamh á ordú cadiad na cásanna ina n-úsáidfear agus na crícheanna chun a n-úsáidfear aon chomhartha bheidh orduithe le hordú fén bhfo-alt deiridh sin roimhe seo, agus fós cadiad na cásanna ina mbeidh an comhartha san le ceiliúradh agus cadé an luas ar a mbeidh aon teachtaireacht a cuirfear amach tré radio-thelegrafaíocht mar gheall ar an gcomhartha le cur ar aghaidh, agus déanfar sna rialacha san pé socrú chífear don Aire is gá chun éifeachta do thabhairt d'Airtiogail a dó is dachad agus a trí is dachad den Chonvensiún um Shábháltacht agus d'Airtiogal a ceathair is dachad den chéanna sa mhéid go mbaineann an tAirtiogal san le comharthaí guaise agus práinne.
(3) Má dheineann máistir luinge, no má chuireann fé ndeár no má cheaduíonn do dhuine ar bith fé n-a údarás—
(a) aon chomhartha bheidh orduithe le hordú fén alt so d'úsáid no do thaisbeáint ach amháin sna cásanna agus chun na gcrícheanna bheidh orduithe leis na rialacha ar n-a ndéanamh fén alt so; no
(b) aon chomhartha príobháideach, pe'ca cláruithe dho no nách eadh, d'úsáid no do thaisbeáint, gur baolach go gceapfaí gur aon chomhartha é bheidh orduithe amhlaidh le hordú;
beidh sé ciontach i gcionta fén alt so agus ar a chiontú ann ar an slí achmair dlighfear fíneáil ná raghaidh thar caoga púnt do chur air agus fós dlighfidh cúiteamh d'íoc as aon obair do rinneadh no as aon fhionntar ina ndeachthas no as aon chailliúint do thárla de dheascaibh a cheapadh gur chomhartha guaise no práinne an comhartha, agus féadfar, gan dochar do leigheas ar bith eile, an cúiteamh san do bhaint amach sa tslí chéanna inar féidir cúiteamh alos sábhála do bhaint amach.
(4) Scuirfidh alt a ceithre chéad a ceathair triochad den Phríomh-Acht d'éifeacht do bheith aige ach ní dhéanfaidh éinní sa Chuid seo den Acht so deifir d'aon rialacha ar n-a ndéanamh fén alt san agus a bheidh i bhfeidhm le linn tosach feidhme na Coda so den Acht so agus, go dtí go gceiliúrfar iad, beidh éifeacht ag aon rialacha den tsórt san fé is dá mba fé sna forálacha san roimhe seo den alt so déanfaí iad.
(5) I dteanta na gcomharthaí príobháideacha go bhféadfaidh an tAire, fé alt a seacht gcéad a trí triochad den Phríomh-Acht, diúltú d'iad do chlárú, féadfaidh an tAire diúltú d'aon chomhartha príobháideach do chlárú nách uiriste, dar leis, é d'aithint thar comharthaí práinne no thar comharthaí ar n-a n-ordú chun a thaisbeáint go bhfuiltear chun teachtaireachta do chur amach maidir le contabhairt do loingseoireacht, agus féadfaidh an tAire ceiliúradh do dhéanamh ar chlárú aon chomhartha den tsórt san a bheidh cláruithe fén alt san den Phríomh-Acht más rud é, dar leis, nách uiriste é d'aithint amhlaidh.
E bheith d'oblagáid congnamh do thabhairt ar radio-ghlaoch guaise d'fháil.
26.—(1) Ar mháistir luinge le Saorstát Éireann d'fháil chomhartha ghuaise ar a luing, tré radio-thelegrafaíocht, o luing ar bith eile raghaidh má luaithe i gcabhair ar an muintir a bheidh i nguais maran rud é ná beidh ar a chumas san do dhéanamh no gur dóich leis, do réir chúrsaí speisialta an cháis, é do bheith nea-réasúnta no nea-riachtanach san do dhéanamh no mara mbeidh sé fuascailte fé fhorálacha fo-ailt (3) no fo-ailt (4) den alt so.
(2) Féadfaidh máistir luinge ar bith a bheidh i nguais, féadfaidh, tar éis do dul i gcomhairle sa mhéid gur féidir é le máistrí na long a fhreagróidh a chomhartha guaise, éileamh chun teacht i gcabhair air do dhéanamh ar pé ceann no cinn de sna longa san is dóich leis is fearr fhéadfaidh cabhrú leis, agus beidh sé de dhualgas ar mháistir luinge ar bith le Saorstát Éireann ar a ndéanfar éileamh amhlaidh déanamh do réir an éilimh tré leanúint de dhul má luaithe i gcabhair ar an muintir a bheidh i nguais.
(3) Beidh máistir fuascailte ón oblagáid a forchuirtear le fo-alt (1) den alt so chó luath agus a dhéanfaidh máistir na luinge ar a ndearnadh éileamh no, i gcás éileamh do dhéanamh ar níos mó ná long amháin, máistrí na long uile ar a ndearnadh éileamh, a chur in úil go bhfuil sé no siad ag déanamh do réir an éilimh.
(4) Beidh máistir fuascailte ón oblagáid a forchuirtear le fo-alt (1) den alt so agus, i gcás ina mbeifear tar éis éileamh do dhéanamh ar a luing, ón oblagáid a forchuirtear le fo-alt (2) den alt so, má gheibheann sé scéala ná fuil gá a thuilleadh le congnamh.
(5) Má theipeann ar mháistir luinge le Saorstát Éireann déanamh do réir na bhforálacha san roimhe seo den alt so beidh sé ciontach i mí-iompar.
(6) Más rud é, ar mháistir luinge le Saorstát Éireann d'fháil chomhartha ghuaise ar a luing tré radio-thelegrafaíocht o luing eile, ná beidh ar a chumas dul i gcabhair no gur dóich leis, do réir chúrsaí speisialta an cháis, é do bheith nea-réasúnta no nea-riachtanach dul i gcabhair ar an muintir a bheidh i nguais, cuirfe sé teachtaireacht uaidh láithreach tré radio-thelegrafaíocht á rá san le máistir na luinge eile sin agus cuirfidh síos sa leabhar thuruis oifigiúil na cúiseanna bheidh aige chun gan dul i geabhair ar an muintir sin, agus má theipeann air déanamh amhlaidh beidh sé ciontach i gcionta fén alt so agus ar a chiontú ann ar an slí achmair dlighfear fíneáil ná raghaidh thar céad púnt do chur air.
(7) Ní dhéanfaidh éinní san alt so deifir d'fhorálacha ailt a sé den Maritime Conventions Act, 1911, agus ní dhéanfa sé deifir do cheart mháistir luinge chun cúitimh alos sábhála, ná do cheart éinne eile chun an chúitimh sin, an máistir luinge sin do dhéanamh do réir forálacha an ailt seo.
Lampaí comharthaíochta.
27.—Ní raghaidh long ar bith le Saorstát Éireann, is long gur breis agus céad agus caoga tonna a mór-thonnáiste, chun faraige ar thurus eadarnáisiúnta mara mbeidh lampa comharthaíochta ar an luing de shaghas a bheidh ceaduithe ag an Aire agus má théigheann long ar bith chun faraige no má thugann fé dhul chun faraige contrárdha don alt so beidh únaer no máistir na luinge sin ciontach i gcionta fén alt so agus ar a chiontú ann ar an slí achmair dlighfear fíneáil ná raghaidh thar fiche púnt do chur air.
Earraí dainséaracha d'iompar.
28.—(1) Déanfaidh an tAire pé rialacha, i dtaobh earraí d'iompar ar ghaltáin phaisnéara théigheann ar thurusanna eadarnáisiúnta, a chífear do is gá chun éifeachta do thabhairt d'fhorálacha míre 1 d'Airtiogal a ceathair fichead den Chonvensiún um Shábháltacht.
(2) Má deintear, i gcás aon ghaltáin phaisnéara bheidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann, aon riail dá ndéanfar do réir an ailt seo do shárú beidh máistir no únaer an ghaltáin ciontach i gcionta fén alt so agus ar a chiontú ann ar an slí achmair dlighfear fíneáil ná raghaidh thar trí chéad púnt do chur air agus tuigfear, chun crícheanna ailt a ceithre chéad a naoi caogad den Phríomh-Acht, an galtán do bheith nea-shábhálta de dheascaibh í bheith ládálta go nea-chuibhe.
(3) Earraí ar bith a dearbhófar leis na rialacha déanfar fén alt so do bheith de chineál dainséarach tuigfear iad do bheith ina n-earraí dainséaracha chun críche Coda V den Phríomh-Acht.
(4) Tuigfear gur forálacha de bhreis ar aon achtachán eile gus an cuspóir céanna forálacha an ailt seo agus nách forálacha iad atá á gcur in ionad aon achtacháin den tsórt san ná a dheineann srianadh air, ach san i slí ná tuigfear ní ar bith san alt so do thabhairt údaráis chun dul chun dlí le héinne fé dhó no chun éinne do chúiseamh fé dhó mar gheall ar an aon chúrsa amháin.
(5) Bainfidh na forálacha san roimhe seo den alt so, maraon leis na rialacha déanfar fén alt so, le galtáin phaísnéara, ná beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann, faid a bheid san laistigh d'aon phort i Saorstát Éireann fé mar a bhainfid le galtáin phaisnéara bheidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann.
Atharú ar an modh chun orduithe stiúrach do thabhairt.
29.—(1) Ní bheidh sé dleathach do dhuine ar bith ar aon luing le Saorstát Éireann, agus an long san ag dul chun tosaigh, ordú stiúrach do thabhairt uaidh ina mbeidh an focal “bord na scearaighe” no an focal “deiseal” no aon fhocal atá ar chóbhrí le ceachtar de sna focail sin mara mbeidh an duine sin ar intinn ceann na luinge sin do dhul deiseal, ná ordú stiúrach do thabhairt uaidh ina mbeidh an focal “bord na heangaighe” no an focal “tuathal” no aon fhocal atá ar chó-bhrí le ceachtar de sna focail sin mara mbeidh an duine sin ar intinn ceann na luinge do dhul tuathal.
(2) Gach duine dhéanfaidh aon ghníomh is sárú ar an alt so beidh sé ciontach i gcionta fén alt so agus ar a chiontú ann ar an slí achmair dlighfear fíneáil ná raghaidh thar caoga púnt do chur air.
Loingseoireacht chúramach in aice leac oighre.
30.—(1) Ar mháistir luinge le Saorstát Éireann d'fháil tuairisce go bhfuil leac oighre ina chúrsa no in aice le n-a chúrsa, raghaidh sé ar aghaidh fé réidh-luas istoíche no atharóidh a chúrsa istoíche chun coinneáil leor-fhaid amach ón leac oighre ar a mbeidh tuairisc faighte aige agus o líomatáiste an dainséir.
(2) Má theipeann ar mháistir aon luinge den tsórt san déanamh do réir an ailt seo beidh sé ciontach i gcionta fén alt so agus ar a chiontú ann ar an slí achmair dlighfear fíneáil ná raghaidh thar céad púnt do chur air.
Fógraí i dtaobh cúrsaí san Atlantach.
31.—(1) Déanfaidh únaer aon líne de ghaltáin phaisnéara théigheann trasna ar an Atlantach Thuaidh o aon phort no chun aon phuirt i Saorstát Éireann, ar chúrsaí rialta, fógra puiblí do thabhairt, i pé slí ordóidh an tAire, i dtaobh na gcúrsaí bheidh beartuithe do longa na líne sin, agus i dtaobh aon atharú déanfar ar na cúrsaí sin.
(2) Má theipeann ar únaer aon líne de ghaltáin phaisnéara den tsórt san déanamh do réir an ailt seo beidh sé ciontach i gcionta fén alt so agus ar a chiontú ann ar an slí achmair dlighfear fíneáil ná raghaidh thar fiche púnt do chur air.
Foirlíontach.
Alt 267 den Phríomh-Acht do leasú.
32.—Chun críche Choda III den Phríomh-Acht ní iholóidh an focal “paisnéir” duine ar bith a bheidh ar bord luinge toisc na hoblagáide bhíonn ar an máistir daoine dá dtárlann longbhriseadh no bhíonn i nguais, no daoine eile, d'iompar no de bhíthin ní ar bith ná féadfadh máistir ná únaer na luinge ná fostóir na luinge (más ann do) é do bhac ná do réamh-chosc agus dá réir sin déanfar alt a dhá chéad a seacht seascad den Phríomh-Acht do leasú tré sna focail “and person on board the ship either in pursuance of the obligation laid upon the master to carry shipwrecked, distressed or other persons or by reason of any circumstance which neither the master nor the owner nor the charterer (if any) could have prevented or forestalled” do chur isteach i ndiaidh na bhfocal “family and servants.”
Comhacht chun rialacha agus rialacháin do leasú do réir leasuithe ar an gConvensiún um Shábháltacht.
33.—I gcás ina gceangailtear ar an Aire leis an gCuid seo den Acht so feidhm no éifeacht do thabhairt, le haon rialacha no rialacháin, d'aon fhoráil den Chonvensiún um Shábháltacht agus ina ndéanfar an fhoráil sin do leasú do réir Airtiogail a haon seascad den Chonvensiún san, féadfaidh an tAire na rialacha no na rialacháin do leasú dá réir sin.
Rialacha agus rialacháin áirithe do leagadh fé bhráid Tithe an Oireachtais.
34.—(1) Má bhíonn in aon cheann de sna rialacháin um dhéanamh no de sna rialacháin um shuirbhéireacht no de sna rialacha um ghléasanna tárrthála is infheidhmithe maidir le galtáin phaisnéara théigheann ar thurusanna eadarnáisiúnta, no in aon cheann de sna rialacha radio-thelegrafaíochta is infheidhmithe maidir le longa théigheann ar thurusanna eadarnáisiúnta, agus is rialachán no riail ar n-a dhéanamh tar éis an Achta so do rith agus a bheidh i bhfeidhm le linn tosach feidhme na Coda so den Acht so, má bhíonn ann, dar leis an Aire, éileamh—
(a) atá buiniscionn le haon éileamh áirithe den Chonvensiún um Shábháltacht; agus
(b) ná raibh sna rialacháin ná sna rialacha do bhí i bhfeidhm le linn an Achta so do rith;
déanfar an rialachán no an riail, do réir mar bheidh, do leagadh fé bhráid gach Tighe den Oireachtas chó luath agus is féidir é tar éis tosach feidhme na Coda so den Acht so.
(2) Má bhíonn in aon cheann de sna rialacháin um dhéanamh no de sna rialacháin um shuirbhéireacht no de sna rialacha radiothelegrafaíochta, is rialachán no riail is infheidhmithe mar adubhradh agus is ceann ar n-a dhéanamh tar éis tosach feidhme na Coda so den Acht so, má bhíonn ann, dar leis an Aire, éileamh den tsórt san roimhráite, déanfar é do leagadh fé bhráid gach Tighe den Oireachtas chó luath agus is féidir é tar éis a dhéanta.
(3) Na rialacha uile um ghléasanna tárrthála déanfar tar éis tosach feidhme na Coda so den Acht so leagfar iad fé bhráid gach Tighe den Oireachtas chó luath agus is féidir é tar éis a ndéanta, maraon le tuarasgabháil ina luadhfar i dtaobh na rialacha is infheidhmithe maidir le galtáin phaisnéara théigheann ar thurusanna eadarnáisiúnta, ce'ca tá no ná fuil, dar leis an Aire, aon éileamh den tsórt san roimhráite in aon cheann acu san agus má tá, cadé an ceann acu é, agus na rialacha uile um ghléasanna tárrthála déanfar roimh thosach feidhme na Coda so den Acht so agus ná beidh tagtha i bhfeidhm roimh thosach feidhme na Coda so den Acht so leagfar iad fé bhráid gach Tighe den Oireachtas chó luath agus is féidir é tar éis tosach feidhme na Coda so den Acht so maraon le tuarasgabháil den tsórt san roimhráite.
(4) Má dheineann ceachtar Tigh den Oireachtas, laistigh den lá is fiche shuidfidh an Tigh sin—
(a) tar éis aon rialacháin no rialach do leagadh fé n-a bhráid do réir fo-ailt (1) no fo-ailt (2) den alt so; no
(b) tar éis aon rialach do leagadh fé n-a bhráid go dtuairisceofar do réir fo-ailt (3) den alt so éileamh den tsórt san roimhráite do bheith ann;
a bheartú le rún go gcuirfear an rialachán no an riail ar neambrí, beidh an rialachán no an riail gan bhrí as san amach, ach beidh san gan dochar d'éinní do rinneadh roimhe sin fén gcéanna agus fós do rialachán nua no riail nua do dhéanamh.
(5) Scuirfidh fo-alt (2) d'alt a ceithre chéad a seacht fichead den Phríomh-Acht d'éifeacht do bheith aige.
Léiriú ar Chuid I.
35.—Sa Chuid seo den Acht so tá leis na habairtí seo leanas na bríonna ceaptar dóibh fé seach leis seo, sé sin le rá:—
Cialluíonn “rialacháin um dhéanamh” na cinn sin de sna rialacháin a bheidh déanta fé alt a seacht gcéad a ceathair fichead den Phríomh-Acht le n-a n-orduítear na nithe nách foláir suirbhéir long do bheith sásta ina dtaobh sara ndéarfa sé i ndearbhú suirbhéireachta galtán paisnéara do bheith oiriúnach ar dhul ar aon turusanna áirithe no ar aon chineál áirithe turasanna luaidhtear sna rialacháin;
Cialluíonn “tír le n-a mbaineann an Convensiún um Shábháltacht”—
(a) tír go mbeidh dearbhuithe i dtaobh a Rialtais go ndearna sé an Convensiún um Shábháltacht do dhaingniú no glacadh leis agus ná beidh dearbhuithe i dtaobh a Rialtais go ndearna sé an Convensiún san do shéanadh;
(b) tír go mbeidh dearbhuithe ina taobh an Convensiún um Shábháltacht do bheith curtha i mbaint léi fé fhorálacha Airtiogail a dó seascad den Chonvensiún san, agus nách tír go mbeidh dearbhuithe ina taobh an Convensiún san do scur de bheith i mbaint léi fé fhorálacha an Airtiogail sin;
Cialluíonn “dearbhú suirbhéireachta” dearbhú ar n-a dhéanamh fé alt a dhá chéad a dó seachtód den Phríomh-Acht;
Cialluíonn “turus eadarnáisiúnta” turus o phort i dtír go port i dtír eile agus ceachtar tír acu ina tír le n-a mbaineann an Convensiún um Shábháltacht, cialluíonn “gearr-thurus eadarnáisiúnta” turus eadarnáisiúnta ná téigheann long thar dhá chéad míle o thalamh le n-a linn, agus cialluíonn “cósta-thurus eadarnáisiúnta” turus eadarnáisiúnta ná téigheann long thar fiche míle o thalamh le n-a linn, ach chun críche na forála so—
(a) ní háirmheofar aon chlaonadh dhéanfaidh long ón turus a bheidh beartuithe dhi agus gur drochaimsir amháin fé ndeár san no ní ar bith eile ná féadfadh máistir ná únaer na luinge ná fostóir na luinge (más ann do) é do bhac ná do réamh-chosc; agus
(b) tuigfear gur tír fé leith gach coilíneacht, críoch thar lear, coimirceas no críoch fé thiarnas, agus gach críoch go mbeidh glactha le mandáid ina taobh thar ceann Chumann na Náisiún;
Cialluíonn “rialacha um ghléasanna tárrthála” na rialacha bheidh déanta fé alt a ceithre chéad a seacht fichead den Phríomh-Acht;
Cialluíonn “long fén gConvensiún um Shábháltacht” long le tír le n-a mbaineann an Convensiún um Shábháltacht, agus déanfar an abairt “galtán paisnéara fén gConvensiún um Shábháltacht” do léiriú dá réir sin;
Cialluíonn “trádáil speisialta phaisnéara” trádáil go mbeidh maolú déanta ag an Aire ina taobh ar na rialacháin um dhéanamh no na rialacha um ghléasanna tárrthála do réir na Coda so den Acht so;
Cialluíonn “rialacháin shuirbhéireachta” na cinn sin de sna rialacháin a bheidh déanta fé alt a seacht gcéad a ceathair fichead den Phríomh-Acht le n-a n-orduítear an tslí ina mbeidh suirbhéireachtaí ar ghaltáin phaisnéara le déanamh;
Cialluíonn “rialacha radio-thelegrafaíochta” na rialacha bheidh déanta fé fho-alt (2) d'alt a haon den Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraphy) Act, 1919.
Tosach feidhme Coda I agus athghairm.
36.—(1) Tiocfaidh an Chuid seo den Acht so i bhfeidhm pé dáta cheapfaidh an tAire le hordú.
(2) Beidh na hachtacháin atá leagtha amach i gCuid I den Dara Sceideal a ghabhann leis an Acht so athghairmthe, sa mhéid a luaidhtear sa dara colún den Chuid sin den Sceideal san, o thosach feidhme na Coda so den Acht so.
CUID II.
Ualach-line agus Ladail.
Roimhráiteach.
Longa atá saor o Chuid II.
37.—(1) Beidh na longa so leanas saor on gCuid seo den Acht so, eadhon—
(a) longa seoil fé bhun ochtó tonna do réir an chláir ná bíonn ag gábháil ach do thrádáil fan chósta;
(b) longa saorfar ón gCuid seo den Acht so fé fho-alt (2) den alt so;
(c) longa ná bíonn ag gábháil ach d'iascach;
(d) luaimh áineasa.
(2) Féadfaidh an tAire, ar pé coinníollacha is oiriúnach leis, saoradh ón gCuid seo den Acht so do dhéanamh—
(a) ar luing ar bith a théigheann ar thurusanna éadarnáisiúnta idir phuirt ghar-chomharsanachta i dhá dtír no níos mó más deimhin leis an Aire agus le Rialtaisí na dtíortha san go mbeadh sé mí-réasúnta no do-dhéanta, toisc fothainiúlacht agus coinníollacha na dturus idir na puirt sin, forálacha na Coda so den Acht so do chur i mbaint le longa théigheann ar na turusanna san;
(b) ar luing ar bith a théigheann ar aon turus eile idir phuirt ghar-chomharsanachta más deimhin leis an Aire mar adubhradh; agus
(c) ar aon tsaghas galtán fé bhun ochtó tonna do réir an chláir ná bíonn ag gabháil ach do thrádáil fan chósta, faid a bheid gan ualach d'iompar.
Longa do roinnt chun críche Coda II.
38.—(1) Isé gairmtear feasta san Acht so de longa ná beidh saor ón gCuid seo den Acht so de bhuadh an ailt deiridh sin roimhe seo ná “longa ualach-líne,” agus chun crícheanna na Coda so den Acht so deintear na longa san do roinnt sna cineálacha so leanas, eadhon—
(a) longa ualach-líne eadarnáisiúnta, sé sin le rá, longa go mór-thonnáiste de chéad agus caoga tonna no os a chionn san a iompruíonn ualach no paisnéirí; agus
(b) longa ualach-líne áitiúla, sé sin le rá, longa go mórthonnáiste de chéad agus caoga tonna no os a chionn san ná hiompruíonn ualach ná páisnéirí, agus longa go dtonnáiste is lugha ná san.
(2) Isé gairmtear feasta san Acht so do longa ualach-líne eadarnáisiúnta is le tíortha le n-a mbaineann an Convensiún um Ualach-líne ná “longa fén gConvensiún um Ualach-líne.”
Ualach-línte do mharcáil agus do chur fé uisce.
Rialacha ualach-líne.
39.—(1) Déanfaidh an tAire pé rialacha (dá ngairmtear feasta san Acht so “na rialacha ualach-líne”) a chífear do is gá chun éifeachta do thabhairt d'fhorálacha Airtiogal 6 go 10 den Chonvensiún um Ualach-líne agus Fo-scríbhinne I agus Fo-scríbhinne II a ghabhann leis sin.
(2) Isé gairmtear feasta san Acht so de sna cinn sin de sna rialacha ualach-líne déanfar chun éifeachta do thabhairt do Chuid II d'Fho-scríbhinn I a ghabhann leis an gConvensiún san ná “na coinníollacha um cheapadh ualach-línte.”
Leibheann-líne agus ualachlínte do mharcáil.
40.—(1) Ní raghaidh aon long ualach-líne le Saorstát Éireann, is long do rinneadh tar éis an deichiú lá fichead de Mheitheamh, naoi gcéad déag a dó triochad, ní ragha sí chun faraige maran rud é—
(a) go mbeidh suirbhéireacht déanta ar an luing do réir na rialacha ualach-líne; agus
(b) go mbeidh an long do réir na gcoinníollacha um cheapadh ualach-línte; agus
(c) go mbeidh an long marcálta ar gach taobh le marc (dá ngairmtear “leibheann-líne” feasta san Acht so) a thaisbeánfaidh ionad na lán-leibhinne is uachtaraí mar a bheidh san mínithe leis na rialacha ualach-líne, agus le marcanna (dá ngairmtear “ualach-línte” feasta san Acht so) a thaisbeánfaidh cadé an doimhneas chun ar féidir an long do chur, de dhruim ládála, gan baint o n-a sábháltacht i ngach cás fé leith de chásanna iomdha do réir mar bheidh orduithe leis na rialacha ualach-líne; agus
(d) go mbeidh an leibheann-líne agus na hualach-línte den tsaghas is gá do réir na rialacha ualach-líne, agus go mbeidh an leibheann-líne san ionad is gá do réir na rialacha san, agus gurb é líon na n-ualach-línte ná an líon is gá do réir pé rialacha acu san is infheidhmithe maidir leis an luing; agus
(e) go mbeidh na hualach-línte san ionad is gá do réir pé cinn de sna rialacha ualach-líne is infheidhmithe maidir leis an luing.
(2) Ní raghaidh aon long ualach-líne le Saorstát Éireann, is long do rinneadh roimh an gcéad lá d'Iúl, naoi gcead déag a dó triochad, ní ragha sí chun faraige maran rud é—
(a) go mbeidh suirbhéireacht déanta ar an luing agus í marcálta do réir mhíreanna (a), (c) agus (d) den fho-alt deiridh sin roimhe seo; agus
(b) go mbeidh an long do réir phrínsiobail na gcoinníollacha um cheapadh ualach-línte agus fós do réir mion-phuintí na gcoinníollacha san sa mhéid go bhfuil san réasúnta agus gur féidir é, dar leis an Aire, ag féachaint d'éifeachtúlacht díon na n-oscailtí, na ráileacha gárda, na ndóirse éaluithe uisce, agus na slí chun dul isteach chun ceathrún na fuirinne a bheidh curtha ar fáil tré sna socruithe, na feistisí agus na gléasanna bheidh ar an luing le linn suirbhéireachta do dhéanamh uirthi den chéad uair fén alt so; agus
(c) go mbeidh na hualach-línte san ionad is gá do réir mhíre (e) den fho-alt deiridh sin roimhe seo no san ionad is gá do réir na dtáiblí do bhí i bhfeidhm i Saorstát Éireann díreach roimh an gcúigiú lá d'Iúl, naoi gcéad déag agus triocha, chun ionaid ualach-línte do cheapadh.
(3) Má théigheann long ar bith chun faraige no má thugann sí iarracht ar dhul chun faraige contrárdha don alt so beidh máistir no únaer na luinge sin ciontach i gcionta fén alt so agus ar a chiontú ann ar an slí achmair dlighfear fíneáil ná raghaidh thar céad púnt do chur air.
(4) Long ar bith a bhéarfaidh iarracht ar dhul chun faraige gan suirbhéireacht do bheith déanta uirthi agus gan í bheith marcálta mar is gá do réir an ailt seo féadfar í do choinneáil go dtí go ndéanfar suirbhéireacht uirthi agus í do mharcáil amhlaidh, agus long ar bith ná beidh do réir na gcoinníollacha um cheapadh ualach-línte sa mhéid gur gá é ina cás do réir an ailt seo tuigfear í do bheith nea-shábhálta chun críche ailt a ceithre chéad a naoi caogad den Phríomh-Acht.
Ualach-líne do chur fé uisce.
41.—(1) Ní déanfar long ualach-líne le Saorstát Éireann do ládáil i slí go gcuirfí fé sháile, agus gan aon liosta ar an luing, an ualach-líne oiriúnach ar gach taobh den luing, sé sin le rá, an ualach-líne bheidh á thaisbeáint no bheidh in ainm bheith á thaisbeáint cadé an doimhneas maximum chun ar ceaduithe de thurus na huaire, fé sna rialacha ualach-líne, an long do chur de dhruim ládála.
(2) Má deintear aon long den tsórt san do ládáil contrárdha don alt so beidh únaer no máistir na luinge ciontach i gcionta fén alt so agus ar a chiontú ann ar an slí achmair dlighfear fíneáil ná raghaidh thar céad púnt do chur air, maraon le pé fíneáil bhreise, ná raghaidh thar an suim a luaidhtear anso ina dhiaidh seo, is oiriúnach leis an gcúirt do ghearradh, ag féachaint do mhéid an bhisithe do chuaidh no do raghadh ar chumas tuillimh na luinge de dhruim na hualach-líne oiriúnaighe do chur fé uisce.
(3) Ní raghaidh an fhíneáil bhreise sin thar céad púnt in aghaidh gach orlaigh no coda d'orlach do cuireadh an ualach-líne oiriúnach ar gach taobh den luing fé uisce no do cuirfí fé uisce í dá mba ar sáile bheadh an long agus gan aon liosta uirthi.
(4) Beidh sé ina chosaint mhaith, in aon imeachta i gcoinnibh únaera no máistir mar gheall ar an alt so do shárú, a chruthú ná raibh de chúis leis an sárú ach claonadh no moill ba chlaonadh no moill do thárla de dheascaibh droch-aimsire, no ní eile ná féadfadh an máistir ná an t-únaer ná an fostóir (má b'ann do) é do bhac ná do réamh-chosc, agus dá dheascaibh sin amháin.
(5) Gan dochar d'aon imeachta fé sna forálacha san roimhe seo den alt so, féadfar aon long a bheidh ládálta contrárdha don alt so do choinneáil go dtí go scuirfidh de bheith ládálta amhlaidh.
Ciontaí ilghnéitheacha maidir le marcanna.
42.—Más rud é—
(a) go dteipfidh ar únaer no ar mháistir luinge ualach-líne le Saorstát Éireann a bheidh marcálta do réir na bhforálacha san roimhe seo den Chuid seo den Acht so, go dteipfidh air, gan chúis réasúnta, an long do choinneáil marcálta amhlaidh; no
(b) go ndéanfaidh duine ar bith no go gceadóidh do dhuine ar bith fé n-a smacht aon mharc a bheidh curtha ar aon luing den tsórt san do réir na bhforálacha san roimhe seo den Chuid seo den Acht so do cheilt, do bhaint di, d'atharú, d'agha-lot no do scriosadh amach, ach amháin le húdarás duine bheidh i dteideal fé sna rialacha ualach-líne a údarú an marc d'atharú no d'fhonn dul o ghabháil ag namhaid;
beidh sé ciontach i gcionta fén alt so agus ar a chiontú ann ar an slí achmair dlighfear fíneáil ná raghaidh thar céad púnt do chur air.
Longa d'iniúchadh maidir le hualach-líne.
43.—Féadfaidh suirbhéir luinge no suirbhéir innealltóireachta aon long ualach-líne le Saorstát Éireann d'iniúchadh féachaint an mbeidh forálacha na Coda so den Acht so cólíonta i gcás na luinge agus chun críche aon iniúchta den tsórt san beidh ag aon tsuirbhéir den tsórt san na comhachta uile bhíonn ag cigire don Roinn Tionnscail agus Tráchtála fén bPríomh-Acht.
Deimhnithe.
Deimhnithe ualach-líne do thabhairt amach agus a n-éifeacht san.
44.—(1) Má deintear suirbhéireacht ar luing ualach-líne le Saorstát Éireann, agus í do mharcáil, do réir na bhforálacha san roimhe seo den Chuid seo den Acht so, agus má bhíonn an long do réir na gcoinníollacha um cheapadh ualach-línte sa mhéid gur gá san ina cás do réir na bhforálacha san, bhéarfar amach d'únaer na luinge ar n-a iarraidh sin do agus ar íoc na táille orduithe—
(a) i gcás luinge ualach-líne eadarnáisiúnta, deimhniú ualachlíne dá ngairmtear feasta san Acht so “deimhniú fén gConvensiún um Ualach-Líne”; agus
(b) i gcás luinge ualach-líne áitiúla, deimhniú ualach-líne dá ngairmtear feasta san Acht so “deimhniú ualachlíne le Saorstát Éireann.”
(2) Isé an tAire, no pé duine eile bheidh údaruithe ag an Aire chuige sin, do bhéarfaidh amach gach deimhniú den tsórt san, agus is i pé fuirm agus slí bheidh orduithe leis na rialacha ualach-líne do bhéarfar amach é agus déanfar sna rialacha san pé socrú maidir le deimhnithe fén gConvensiún um Ualach-Líne a chífear don Aire is gá, ag féachaint d'fhorálacha Rialacha IV agus LXVIII den Chonvensiún um Ualach-Líne, chun éifeachta do thabhairt d'fhorálacha Airtiogail a trí déag den Chonvensiún san.
(3) Féadfaidh duine ar bith a bheidh údaruithe ag an Aire chuige sin aon deimhniú den tsórt san do bhéarfaidh an tAire amach do shighniú thar ceann an Aire, agus deimhniú do bhéarfaidh le tuiscint gur sighníodh amhlaidh é beidh sé ionghlachta i bhfianaise díreach fé is dá mba dhuine dá luaidhtear in alt a seacht gcéad a naoi déag den Phríomh-Acht do shighneodh é.
(4) Féadfaidh an tAire a iarraidh ar Rialtas tíre le n-a mbaineann an Convensiún um Ualach-Líne deimhniú fén gConvensiún um Ualach-Líne do thabhairt amach maidir le luing fén gConvensiún um Ualach-Líne bheidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann, agus deimhniú do bhéarfar amach do réir iarratais den tsórt san agus ina mbeidh sé ráite gur dá réir sin do tugadh amach é beidh éifeacht aige chun críche na Coda so den Acht so fé is dá mb'é an tAire do bhéarfadh amach é.
(5) Má deintear deimhniú ualach-líne, ar n-a thabhairt amach do réir an ailt seo agus a bheidh i bhfeidhm de thurus na huaire, do thaisbeáint maidir le luing, tuigfear, chun críche na bhforálacha san roimhe seo den Chuid seo den Acht so, suirbhéireacht do bheith déanta ar an luing fé mar is gá do réir na bhforálacha san, agus, má sé is líon agus is saghas don leibheann-líne agus do sna hualach-línte ar an luing ná an líon agus an saghas is gá do réir na rialacha ualach-líne agus má bhíonn ionad na leibheann-líne agus na hualach-líne ar có-réir leis an ionad a bheidh luaidhte sa deimhniú, tuigfear an long do bheith marcálta fé mar is gá do réir na bhforálacha san.
Ré deimhnithe agus iad d'athnuachaint agus do chur ar ceal.
45.—(1) Gach deimhniú ualach-líne do bhéarfaidh an tAire amach no do bhéarfar amach fé údarás an Aire raghaidh in éag, mara ndeintear é d'athnuachaint do réir forálacha fo-ailt (2) den alt so, i ndeireadh pé tréimhse, nách sia ná cúig bliana o dháta a thabhartha amach, a bheidh luaidhte ann.
(2) Féadfaidh an tAire no éinne go n-údarás ón Aire chun deimhniú ualach-líne do thabhairt amach, féadfaidh athnuachaint do dhéanamh o am go ham agus go ceann pé tréimhse (nách sia ná cúig bliana aon tráth) is oiriúnach leis an Aire no leis an duine eile bheidh ag déanamh na hathnuachainte, ar aon deimhniú ualach-líne den tsórt san tar éis suirbhéireachta do bheith déanta nách lugha éifeachtúlacht ná an tsuirbhéireacht ba ghá, do réir na rialacha ualach-líne, do dhéanamh roimh an deimhniú do thabhairt amach.
(3) Déanfaidh an tAire aon deimhniú ualach-líne den tsórt san a bheidh i bhfeidhm maidir le luing, déanfaidh san do chur ar ceal má bhíonn cúis aige chun a chreidiúint—
(a) go ndearnadh atharuithe substainteacha ar chabhail no ar bharra-dhéanmhais na luinge dheineann deifir d'ionad na n-ualach-línte; no
(b) ná dearnadh feistisí agus gléasanna díonta na n-oscailtí, no na ráileacha gárda, no na dóirse éaluithe uisce, no an tslí chun dul isteach chun ceathrún na fuirinne, do choinneáil, ar an luing, i dtreo chó héifeachtúil agus do bhíodar nuair a tugadh an deimhniú amach.
(4) Déanfaidh únaer gach luinge go mbeidh aon deimhniú den tsórt san tugtha amach ina taobh, déanfaidh, faid a bheidh an deimhniú i bhfeidhm, a chur fé ndeár suirbhéireacht do dhéanamh ar an luing sa tslí orduithe, uair amháin ar a laighead gach bliain tar éis an deimhnithe do thabhairt amach, d'fhonn a fháil amach ar cheart an deimhniú d'fhanúint i bhfeidhm, ag féachaint don fho-alt deiridh sin roimhe seo, agus mara ndeintear suirbhéireacht ar an luing amhlaidh cuirfidh an tAire an deimhniú ar ceal:
Ach féadfaidh an tAire, más oiriúnach leis é in aon chás áirithe,, an tréimhse sin de bhliain d'fhaidiú.
(5) I gcás aon deimhniú ualach-líne den tsórt san do dhul in éag no do chur ar ceal féadfaidh an tAire a cheangal ar únaer no ar mháistir na luinge le n-a mbaineann an deimhniú an deimhniú do thabhairt suas fé mar ordóidh, agus féadfar an long do choinneáil go dtí go ndéanfar do réir an cheangail sin agus má thárlann don únaer no don mháistir é do theip air, gan chúis réasúnta, déanamh do réir an cheangail sin beidh sé ciontach i gcionta fén alt so agus ar a chiontú ann ar an slí achmair dlighfear fíneáil ná raghaidh thar deich bpúint do chur air.
(6) Ar shuirbhéireacht do dhéanamh ar luing ar bith do réir an ailt seo íocfaidh únaer na luinge pé táille bheidh orduithe.
Ní raghaidh longa chun faraige gan deimhniú.
46.—(1) Ní raghaidh aon long le Saorstát Éireann, is long ualach-líne eadarnáisiúnta, chun faraige mara mbeidh deimhniú fén gConvensiún um Ualach-Líne i bhfeidhm maidir leis an luing.
(2) Ní raghaidh aon long le Saorstát Éireann, is long ualachlíne áitiúil, chun faraige mara mbeidh deimhniú ualach-líne le Saorstát Éireann i bhfeidhm maidir leis an luing.
(3) Taisbeánfaidh máistir gach luinge ualach-líne le Saorstát Éireann don oifigeach Custum ar a n-éileofar réiteach no transíré don luing an deimhniú is gá do réir na bhforálacha san roimhe seo den alt so do bheith i bhfeidhm ar an luing do dhul chun faraige, agus ní deonfar réiteach ná transíré go dtí go ndéanfar an deimhniú san do thaisbeáint amhlaidh agus féadfar an long do choinneáil go dtí go ndéanfar san.
(6) Beidh maistir gach luinge raghaidh chun faraige no bhéarfaidh iarracht ar dhul chun faraige contrárdha don alt so, beidh sé ciontach i gcionta fén alt so agus ar a chiontú ann ar an slí achmair dlighfear fíneáil ná raghaidh thar céad púnt do chur air.
Deimhniú ualach-líne d'fhoillsiú maraon le mion-innste i dtaobh doimhnis ládála.
47.—(1) Nuair a bheidh deimhniú ualach-líne tugtha amach do réir na bhforálacha san roimhe seo den Chuid seo den Acht so maidir le luing ualach-líne le Saorstát Éireann—
(a) déanfaidh únaer na luinge láithreach ar an deimhniú d'fháil a chur fé ndeár é do chur i bhfráma agus do chur suas in áit éigin sho-fheisce ar bord na luinge agus fós a chur fé ndeár é do choimeád i bhfráma agus curtha suas amhlaidh, agus é so-léighte, faid a bheidh an deimhniú i bhfeidhm agus a bheidh an long in úsáid; agus
(b) déanfaidh máistir na luinge, sara n-iontrálfaidh éinní eile in aon leabhar turuis oifigiúil, na mion-innste i dtaobh ionaid na leibheann-líne agus na n-ualach-línte bheidh luaidhte sa deimhniú d'iontráil sa leabhar san.
(2) Sara bhfágaidh aon long ualach-líne le Saorstát Éireann aon duga, caladh, cuan no áit eile chun dul chun faraige déanfaidh máistir na luinge sin—
(a) pé mion-innste bheidh orduithe ag an Aire le rialacháin d'iontráil sa leabhar turuis oifigiúil i dtaobh an doimhnis ládála bheidh sa luing de thurus na huaire; agus
(b) a chur fé ndeár fógra, agus é i pé fuirm agus pé cinn de sna mion-innste sin ann is gá do réir na rialachán san, do chur suas in áit éigin sho-fheisce ar bord na luinge agus é do choimeád curtha suas amhlaidh, agus é so-léighte, go dtí go sroichfidh an long malairt duga, calaidh, cuain no áite:
Ach féadfaidh an tAire, leis na rialacháin sin, longa trádála dúthchais no aon tsaghas áirithe longa trádála dúthchais do shaoradh o éilithe míre (b) den fho-alt so.
(3) Má theipeann ar mháistir no ar únaer aon luinge ualachlíne le Saorstát Éireann déanamh do réir forálacha an ailt seo beidh sé ciontach i gcionta fén alt so agus ar a chiontú ann ar an slí achmair dlighfear fíneáil ná raghaidh thar fiche púnt do chur air.
Mion-innste i dtaobh ualach-líne do chur isteach i gcó-aontuithe déanfar leis an bhfuirinn.
48.—(1) Sara ndeinidh ball ar bith d'fhuirinn aon luinge ualach-líne le Saorstát Éireann ’na mbeidh deimhniú ualach-líne i bhfeidhm ina taobh có-aontú leis an bhfuirinn do shighniú cuirfidh máistir na luinge isteach sa chó-aontú na mion-innste i dtaobh ionaid na leibheann-líne agus na n-ualach-línte bheidh luaidhte sa deimhniú agus má theipeann air san do dhéanamh beidh sé ciontach i gcionta fén alt so agus ar a chiontú ann ar an slí achmair dlighfear fíneáil ná raghaidh thar fiche púnt do chur air.
(2) I gcás luinge ualach-líne le Saorstát Éireann is long a théigheann go tíortha coigríche ní raghaidh maoirseoir ar aghaidh le fostú na fuirinne go dtí—
(a) go dtaisbeánfar do deimhniú ualach-líne bheidh i bhfeidhm de thurus na huaire maidir leis an luing; agus
(b) gur deimhin leis na mion-innste is gá do réir an ailt seo do bheith curtha isteach sa chó-aontú leis an bhfuirinn.
Forálacha speisialta i dtaobh long fén gConvensiún um Ualach-Line ná beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann.
Deimhnithe ualach-líne do longa fén gConvensiún ná beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann.
49.—(1) Féadfaidh an tAire, ar Rialtas tíre le n-a mbaineann an Convensiún um Ualach-Líne dá iarraidh sin, deimhniú fén gConvensiún um Ualach-Líne do thabhairt amach maidir le luing ualach-líne eadarnáisiúnta leis an tír sin más deimhin leis fé mar is gá i gcás luinge le Saorstát Éireann go bhféadfa sé, do réir chirt, an deimhniú do thabhairt amach, agus má bheirtear amach deimhniú ar iarratas den tsórt san déarfar ann é bheith tugtha amach amhlaidh.
(2) D'fhonn a chinneadh an dleathach i Saorstát Éireann do dheimhnithe bheireann le tuiscint iad do bheith tugtha amach do réir an Chonvensiúin um Ualach-Líne alos longa fén gConvensiún um Ualach-Líne ná beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann déanfaidh an tAire pé rialacháin a chífear do is gá chun éifeachta do thabhairt d'Airtiogal a seacht déag den Chonvensiún um Ualach-Líne, agus chun críche na bhforálacha atá ina dhiaidh seo sa Chuid seo den Acht so maidir le longa fén gConvensiún um Ualach-Líne ná beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann cialluíonn an abairt “deimhniú dleathach fén gConvensiún um Ualach-Líne” deimhniú bheidh do réir pé rialachán acu san is infheidhmithe maidir leis an gcás.
Longa fén gConvensiún ná beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann d'iniúchadh agus do rialú.
50.—(1) Féadfaidh suirbhéir luinge no suirbhéir innealltóireachta dul ar bord aon luinge fén gConvensiún um Ualach-Líne ná beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann, le linn í do bheith laistigh d'aon phort i Saorstát Éireann, chun a éileamh go dtaisbeánfaí aon deimhniú ualach-líne bheidh i bhfeidhm de thurus na huaire maidir leis an luing.
(2) Má deintear deimhniú dleathach fén gConvensiún um Ualach-Líne do thaisbeáint don tsuirbhéir ar é do dhéanamh aon éilimh den tsórt san ní bheidh i gcomhachta an tsuirbhéara chun na luinge d'iniúchadh maidir leis an ualach-líne ach comhachta chun féachaint—
(a) ná fuil an long ládálta thar mar a lomhálann an deimhniú;
(b) go bhfuil ionad na n-ualach-línte ar an luing ar có-réir leis an ionad a bheidh luaidhte sa deimhniú;
(c) ná dearnadh aon atharuithe substainteacha ar chabhail ná ar bharra-dhéanmhais na luinge a dheineann deifir d'ionad na n-ualach-línte;
(d) go ndearnadh feistisí agus gléasanna dícnta na n-oscailtí, agus na ráileacha gárda, agus na dóirse éaluithe uisce, agus an tslí chun dul isteach chun ceathrún na fuirinne, do choinneáil, ar an luing, i dtreo chó héifeachtúil agus do bhíodar nuair a tugadh an deimhniú amach;
agus chun críche aon iniúchta den tsórt san beidh ag an suirbhéir na comhachta uile bhíonn ag cigire don Roinn Tionnscail agus Tráchtála fén bPríomh-Acht.
(3) Má gheibhtear, ar aon iniúchadh den tsórt san do dhéanamh, go bhfuil an long ládálta thar mar a lomhálann an deimhniú, féadfar an long do choinneáil agus féadfar imeachta do bhunú in aghaidh a máistir no a húnaera, fé sna forálacha atá ina dhiaidh seo sa Chuid seo den Acht so maidir le hualach-línte ar longa ná beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann do chur fé uisce.
(4) Má gheibhtear, ar aon iniúchadh den tsórt san do dhéanamh, ná fuil na hualach-línte ar an luing san ionad a bheidh luaidhte sa deimhniú féadfar an long do choinneáil go dtí go gceartófar an ní sin chun sástachta an tsuirbhéara.
(5) Má gheibhtear, ar aon iniúchadh den tsórt san do dhéanamh, go bhfuil an long atharuithe chó substainteach san maidir leis na nithe dá dtagartar i míreanna (c) agus (d) d'fho-alt (2) den alt so gur léir ná féadfadh an long dul chun faraige gan anam daoine do chur i gcontabhairt, tuigfear an long do bheith nea-shábhálta chun críche ailt a ceithre chéad a naoi caogad no ailt a ceithre chéad a dó seascad, do réir mar bheidh, den Phríomh-Acht:
Ach má coinnítear an long fé cheachtar den dá alt deiridh sin a luaidhtear ordóidh an tAire an long do scaoileadh chó luath agus is deimhin leis go bhféadfadh an long dul chun faraige gan anam daoine do chur i gcontabhairt.
(6) Mara ndeintear deimhniú dleathach fén gConvensiún um Ualach-Líne do thaisbeáint don tsuirbhéir ar é do dhéanamh éilimh den tsórt san roimhráite beidh an chomhacht chéanna, chun na luinge d'iniúchadh, ag an suirbhéir, chun féachaint go bhfuil forálacha na Coda so den Acht so cólíonta, do bheadh aige dá mba long le Saorstát Éireann an long.
(7) Chun crícheanna an ailt seo tuigfear long do bheith ládálta thar mar a lomhálann an deimhniú má bhíonn sí ládálta i slí go gcuirfí fé sháile, agus gan aon liosta ar an luing, an ualach-líne oiriúnach ar gach taobh den luing, sé sin le rá, an ualach-líne chífear ón deimhniú do bheith á thaisbeáint cadé an doimhneas maximum chun ar ceaduithe de thurus na huaire, fén gConvensiún um Ualach-Líne, an long do chur de dhruim ládála.
Deimhnithe do longa fén gConvensiún do thaisbeáint d'oifigigh Chustum.
51.—Taisbeánfaidh máistir gach luinge fén gConvensiún um Ualach-Líne ná beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann, taisbeánfaidh don oifigeach Custum ar a n-éileofar réiteach no transíré don luing o aon phort i Saorstát Éireann—
(a) i gcás réiteach d'éileamh maidir le turus cadarnáisiúnta, deimhniú dleathach fén gConvensiún um Ualach-Líne;
(b) i gcás réiteach no transíré d'éileamh maidir le turus ar bith eile, deimhniú dleathach fén gConvensiúin um Ualach-Líne no deimhniú ualach-líne le Saorstát Éireann a bheidh i bhfeidhm de thurus na huaire maidir leis an luing;
agus ní deonfar réiteach na transíré go dtí go ndéanfar an deimhniú is gá do réir an ailt seo do thaisbeáint amhlaidh agus féadfar an long do choinneáil go dtí go ndéanfar san.
Forálacha Generálta i dtaobh Long ná beidh Cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann.
Suirbhéireacht, marcáil, agus coinníollacha um cheapadh ualach-línte i gcás long ná beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann.
52.—Bainfidh forálacha ailt a dachad den Acht so le longa ualach-líne ná beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann agus a bheidh ag dul chun faraige no ag tabhairt iarrachta ar dhul chun faraige o phuirt i Saorstát Éireann fé mar a bhainid le longa ualach-líne le Saorstát Éireann, ach san fé réir an atharuithe seo leanas, eadhon:—
(a) ní bhainfidh an t-alt san le luing fén gConvensiún um Ualach-Líne ná beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann má deintear deimhniú dleathach fén gConvensiún um Ualach-Líne do thaisheáint maidir leis an luing; agus
(b) fé réir forálacha míre (a) den alt so, tuigfear, maidir le luing le tír ar bith lasmuich den Chó-chiníochas Bhriotáineach ná beidh do réir na gcoinníollacha um cheapadh ualach-línte sa mhéid go gceangailtear san ina cás leis an alt sin a dachad, an long san do bheith nea-shábhálta chun críche ailt a ceithre chéad a dó seascad den Phríomh-Acht.
Ualach-líne ar longa ná beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann do chur fe uisce.
53.—Bainfidh forálacha ailt a haon is dachad den Acht so le longa ualach-líne ná beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann, le linn iad do bheith laistigh d'aon phort i Saorstát Éireann, fé mar a bhainid le longa ualach-líne le Saorstát Éireann, ach san fé réir na n-atharú so leanas, eadhón:—
(a) ní déanfar aon long fén gConvensiún um Ualach-Líne do choinneáil ná ní déanfar aon imeachta i gcoinnibh a húnaera ná a máistir do bhunú, de bhuadh an ailt sin, ach amháin tar éis do shuirbhéir luinge no suirbhéir innealltóireachta iniúchadh do dhéanamh uirthi mar a foráltar anso roimhe seo; agus
(b) ciallóidh an abairt “an ualach-líne oiriúnach,” maidir le luing ar bith ná beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann—
(i) i gcás luinge fén gConvensiún um Ualach-Líne ’na dtaisbeánfar ina taobh, ar iniúchadh den tsórt san roimhráite do dhéanamh, deimhniú dleathach fén gConvensiún um Ualach-Líne, an ualach-líne chífear ón deimhniú do bheith á thaisbeáint cadé an doimhneas maximum chun ar ceaduithe de thurus na huaire, fén gConvensiún um Ualach-Líne, an long do chur de dhruim ládála;
(ii) i gcás ar bith eile, an ualach-líne bheidh ar có-réir leis an ualach-líne thaisbeánann cadé an doimhneas maximum chun ar ceaduithe de thurus na huaire, fé sna rialacha ualach-líne, an long do chur de dhruim ládála no, mara mbeidh aon ualach-líne ar an luing ar có-réir mar adubhradh, an ualachlíne is ísle ar an luing.
Longa na beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann d'iniúchadh.
54.—Bainfidh forálacha ailt a trí is dachad den Acht so le longa ualach-líne, seachas longa le Saorstát Éireann no longa fén gConvensiún um Ualach-Líne, ná beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann, faid a bheid laistigh d'aon phort i Saorstát Éireann fé mar a bhainfid le longa ualach-líne le Saorstát Éireann.
Deimhnithe ualach-líne do longa ná beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann.
55.—(1) Na forálacha den Chuid seo den Acht so i dtaobh deimhniú ualach-líne le Saorstát Éireann do thabhairt amach agus i dtaobh éifeacht, ré, athnuachaint agus cur ar ceal na ndeimhniú san bainfid le longa ualach-líne ná beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann fé mar a bhainfid le longa ualach-líne le Saorstát Éireann, ach san fé réir na n-atharú so leanas, eadhon:—
(a) féadfar aon deimhniú den tsórt san do thabhairt amach maidir le luing ualach-líne eadarnáisiúnta fé mar do bhéarfaí amach deimhniú dá shaghas maidir le luing ualach-líne áitiúil, ach san i slí ná beidh aon deimhniú den tsórt san do bhéarfar amach maidir le luing fén gConvensiún um Ualach-Líne dleathach ach faid ná beidh an long ag dul ar thurusanna eadarnáisiúnta, agus cuirfear ráiteas sa chéill sin mar chúl-scríbhinn ar an deimhniú agus cuirfidh an tAire an deimhniú ar ceal má bhíonn cúis aige chun a chreidiúint go dtéigheann an long ar thurusanna den tsórt san; agus
(b) an tsuirbhéireacht is gá d'fhonn a fháil amach ar cheart an deimhniú d'fhanúint i bhfeidhm is ar an Aire dá éileamh san a déanfar í.
(2) Más deimhin leis an Aire—
(a) (i) socrú do bheith déanta, sa dlí bheidh i bhfeidhm in aon pháirt den Chó-Chiníochas Bhriotáineach, i dtaobh ualach-línte ar longa (no ar aon chineál no saghas long) a bheidh cláruithe sa pháirt sin den Chó-Chiníochas Bhriotáineach do cheapadh agus do mharcáil agus do dheimhniú; no
(ii) scerú do bheith déanta mar adubhradh, sa dlí bheidh i bhfeidhm in aon tír lasmuich den Chó-Chiníochas Bhriotáineach, maidir le longa (no le haon chineál no saghas long) leis an tír sin agus socrú do bheith déanta amhlaidh freisin (no é do bheith có-aontuithe socrú do dhéanamh amhlaidh) chun glactha le deimhnithe ualach-líne le Saorstát Éireann mar dheimhnithe ag á mbeidh i bpuirt sa tír sin an éifeacht chéanna le deimhnithe ar n-a dtabhairt amach fén socrú san; agus
(b) an socrú san i dtaobh ualach-línte do cheapadh agus do mharcáil agus do dheimhniú do bheith bunuithe ar na prínsiobail chéanna ar a bhfuil na socruithe có-réire a foráltar leis an gCuid seo den Acht so bunuithe agus é bheith chó héifeachtúil leo san;
féadfaidh an tAire a ordú, le hordú, an éifeacht chéanna bheidh ag deimhnithe ualach-líne le Saorstát Éireann do bheith, chun críche na Coda so den Acht so, ag deimhnithe ualach-líne ar n-a dtabhairt amach do réir an tsocruithe sin maidir le longa (no leis an gcineál no an saghas san long) a bheidh cláruithe sa pháirt sin den Chó-Chiníochas Bhriotáineach no maidir le longa (no leis an gcineál no an saghas san long) leis an tír sin, lasmuich den Chó-Chiníochas Bhriotáineach, pe'ca aca é:
Ach ní bhainfidh aon Ordú déanfar fén bhfo-alt so le longa fén gConvensiún um Ualach-Líne théigheann ar thurusanna eadarnáisiúnta.
Máistrí longa ná beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann do thaisbeáint deimhniú d'oifigigh Chustum.
56.—Déanfaidh máistir gach luinge ualach-líne, seachas long le Saorstát Éireann no long fén gConvensiún um Ualach-Líne ná beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann, deimhniú ualach-líne le Saorstát Éireann, no deimhniú go n-éifeacht aige fén Acht so mar dheimhniú den tsórt san agus is deimhniú bheidh i bhfeidhm de thurus na huaire maidir leis an luing, do thaisbeáint don oifigeach Custum ar a n-éileofar réiteach no transíré don luing o aon phort i Saorstát Éireann, agus ní deonfar réiteach ná transíré go dtí go ndéanfar an deimhniú is gá do réir an ailt seo do thaisbeáint amhlaidh agus féadfar an long do choinneáil go dtí go ndéanfar san.
Adhmad do Ládáil.
Ualach adhmaid d'iompar ar an leibhinn.
57.—(1) Déanfaidh an tAire rialacháin (dá ngairmtear feasta san alt so na “rialacháin um ualach adhmaid”) i dtaobh na gcoinníollacha ar ar ceaduithe adhmad d'iompar mar ualach in aon spás nea-chlúduithe ar leibhinn aon luinge ualach-líne.
(2) Beidh sna rialacháin um ualach adhmaid pé rialacháin a chífear don Aire is gá chun éifeachta do thabhairt do mhír a dó d'Airtiogal a sé den Chonvensiún um Ualach-Líne.
(3) Fé réir forálacha an fho-ailt deiridh sin roimhe seo féadfar a ordú go generálta leis na rialacháin um ualach adhmaid cadiad na coinníollacha ar ar ceaduithe adhmad d'iompar mar adubhradh in aon luing ualach-líne ar gach turus no ar aon chineál áirithe turusanna agus i ngach saosúr no in aon tsaosúr áirithe, agus go sonnrách féadfar a ordú leo cadé an tslí agus an t-ionad ina mbeidh an t-adhmad le stabháil agus cadé an socrú bheidh le déanamh ar an luing chun sábháltachta na fuirinne.
(4) Má deintear aon fhoráil de sna rialacháin um ualach adhmaid do shárú i gcás aon luinge ualach-líne le Saorstát Éireann beidh máistir na luinge ciontach i gcionta fén alt so agus ar a chiontú ann ar an slí achmair dlighfear fíneáil ná raghaidh thar cúig céad púnt do chur air:
Ach beidh sé ina chosaint mhaith, in aon imeachta i gcoinnibh máistir mar gheall ar na rialacháin um ualach adhmaid do shárú, a chruthú ná raibh de chúis leis an sárú ach claonadh no moill ba chlaonadh no moill do thárla de dheascaibh drochaimsire, no ní eile ná féadfadh an máistir ná an t-únaer ná an fostóir (má b'ann do) é do bhac ná do réamh-chosc, agus dá dheascaibh sin amháin.
(5) Chun a chur in áirithe go ndéanfar do réir na rialachán um ualach adhmaid beidh ag aon oifigeach, go n-údarás generálta no speisialta chuige sin ón Aire, comhacht chun iniúchta do dhéanamh ar aon luing ualach-líne bheidh ag iompar ualaigh adhmaid in aon spás nea-chlúduithe ar a leibheann, agus chun na críche sin beidh aige na comhachta uile bhíonn ag cigire don Roinn Tionnscail agus Tráchtála fén bPríomh-Acht.
(6) Bainfidh na forálacha san roimhe seo den alt so maraon leis na rialacháin um ualach adhmaid le longa ualach-líne ná beidh cláruithe i Saorstát Éireann, faid a bheid laistigh d'aon phort i Saorstát Éireann, fé mar a bhainfid le longa ualach-líne le Saorstát Éireann.
Foirlíontach.
Ailt 436 agus 454 den Phríomh-Acht do léasú.
58.—(1) Déanfar, i bhfo-ailt (1) agus (3) d'alt a ceithre chéad a sé triochad agus i bhfo-alt (1) d'alt a ceithre chéad a ceathair caogad den Phríomh-Acht, an abairt “free board” do chur in ionad na habairte “clear side.”
(2) Scuirfidh fo-alt (3) den alt san a ceithre chéad a sé triochad d'éifeacht do bheith aige maidir le longa ualach-líne.
(3) Cuirfear an fo-alt so leanas in ionad fo-ailt (5) den alt san a ceithre chéad a sé triochad, eadhon—
“ (5) In this section the expression ‘free board’ means, in the case of any ship which is marked with a deck-line, the height from the water to the upper edge of the deck-line, and, in the case of any other ship, the height amidship from the water to the upper edge of the deck from which the depth of hold as stated in the register is measured.”
Comhacht chun rialacha do leasú do réir leasuithe ar an gConvensiún um Ualach-Líne.
59.—Má deintear aon fhoráil den Chonvensiún um Ualach-Líne go gceangailtear ar an Aire leis an gCuid seo den Acht so éifeacht do thabhairt di le haon rialacha no rialacháin, má deintear san do leasú, do réir Airtiogail a fiche den Chonvensiún um Ualach-Líne, féadfaidh an tAire na rialacha no na rialacháin do leasú dá réir sin.
Léiriú ar Chuid II.
60.—Sa Chuid seo den Acht so tá leis na habairtí seo leanas na bríonna ceaptar dóibh fé seach leis seo, sé sin le rá:—
Cialluíonn “tír le n-a mbaineann an Convensiún um Ualach-Líne”—
(a) tír go mbeidh dearbhuithe i dtaobh a Rialtais go ndearna sé an Convensiún um Ualach-Líne do dhaingniú no glacadh leis agus ná beidh dearbhuithe i dtaobh a Rialtais go ndearna sé an Convensiún san do shéanadh;
(b) tír go mbeidh dearbhuithe ina taobh an Convensiún um Ualach-Líne do bheith curtha i mbaint léi fé fhorálacha Airtiogail a haon is fiche den Chonvensiún san, agus nách tír go mbeidh dearbhuithe ina taobh an Convensiún san do scur de bheith i mbaint léi fé fhorálacha an Airtiogail sin;
Cialluíonn “turus eadarnáisiúnta” turus o phort i dtír go port i dtír eile agus ceachtar tír acu ina tír le n-a mbaineann an Convensiún um Ualach-Líne, ach chun críche an mhínithe seo—
(a) ní háirmheofar aon chlaonadh dhéanfaidh long ón turus a bheidh beartuithe dhi agus gur drochaimsir amháin fé ndeár san no ní ar bith eile ná féadfadh máistir ná únaer na luinge ná fostóir na luinge (más ann do) é do bhac ná do réamh-chosc; agus
(b) tuigfear gur tír fé leith gach coilíneacht, críoch thar lear, coimirceas no críoch fé thiarnas, agus gach críoch go mbeidh glactha le mandáid ina taobh thar ceann Chumann na Náisiún;
Cialluíonn “orduithe” orduithe leis na rialacha ualach-líne.
Tosach feidhme Coda II agus athghairm.
61.—(1) Fé réir forálacha an fho-ailt seo tiocfaidh an Chuid seo den Acht so i bhfeidhm an lá ceaptha:
Ach—
(a) i gcás deimhnithe, ar n-a thabhairt amach fé alt a ceithre chéad a trí is dachad den Phríomh-Acht, do bheith i bhfeidhm maidir le haon luing le linn an Achta so do rith agus an deimhnithe sin do scur de bheith i bhfeidhm roimh an lá ceaptha; no
(b) i gcás ina ndéanfaidh an tAire no ina ndéanfar fé údarás an Aire, roimh an lá ceaptha, deimhniú ualachlíne do thabhairt amach do réir na Coda so den Acht so maidir le haon luing;
tiocfaidh an Chuid seo den Acht so i bhfeidhm maidir leis an luing sin ón dáta ar a scuirfidh an deimhniú de bheith i bhfeidhm no ar a dtabharfar amach é, do réir mar bheidh.
(2) Na hachtacháin atá leagtha amach i gCuid II den Dara Sceideal a ghabhann leis an Acht so scuirfid, sa mhéid a luaidhtear sa dara colún den Chuid sin den Sceideal san, d'éifeacht do bheith acu maidir le haon luing, ón dáta ar a dtiocfaidh an Chuid seo den Acht so i bhfeidhm maidir leis an luing sin agus beid athghairmthe ón lá ceaptha.
(3) Chun críche an ailt seo cialluíonn an abairt “an lá ceaptha” pé lá cheapfaidh an tAire le hOrdú.
CUID III.
Generalta.
Forálacha i dtaobh rialacha agus rialachán.
62.—(1) D'ainneoin aon rialacha no rialachán a déanfar do réir an Achta so chun feidhme no éifeachta do thabhairt d'aon fhoráil den Chonvensiún um Shábháltacht no den Chonvensiún um Ualach-Líne le n-a n-éilítear feisteas no gléas no fearas áirithe, no saghas áirithe den chéanna, d'fheistiú no d'iompar i luing no aon tsocrú áirithe do dhéanamh i luing, féadfaidh an tAire a cheadú aon fheisteas no gléas no fearas eile, no aon tsaghas den chéanna, d'fheistiú no d'iompar no aon tsocrú eile do dhéanamh más deimhin leis an feisteas no an gléas no an fearas eile sin, no an saghas san den chéanna, no an socrú eile sin, do bheith chó héifeachtúil ar a laighead leis sin a héilítear leis an gConvensiún.
(2) Má bhíonn se de cheangal ar an Aire fén Acht so na rialacháin no rialacha san do dhéanamh a chífear do is gá chun éifeachta do thabhairt d'aon cheann d'fhorálacha an Chonvensiúin um Shábháltacht no an Chonvensiúin um Ualach-Líne, ansan, i gcás forála go bhfuil a téarmaí de shaghas a dhílsíonn sna Rialtaisí uile agus fé seach is páirtithe sa Chonvensiún discréid i dtaobh ar cheart éinní do dhéanamh no cadé an ní ba cheart do dhéanamh fén bhforáil sin, léirecfar an ceangal mar údarás don Aire chun pé socrú (más aon cheann é) do dhéanamh le rialacháin no le rialacha, i dtaobh an ní bheidh i gceist, is dóich leis an Aire, i bhfeidhmiú na discréide sin, do bheith ceart.
Fógra bheidh le tabhairt d'oifigeach Chonsulta i gcás imeachta do bhunú mar gheall ar longa coigríche.
63.—I gcás long ar bith le haon tír lasmuich den Chochiníochas Bhriotáineach do choinneáil fén Acht so, agus i gcás aon imeachta do bhunú fén Acht so i gcoinnibh máistir no únaera aon luinge den tsórt san, seirbheálfar fógra láithreach ar an oifigeach consulta, don tír le n-a mbaineann an long, a bheidh ag an bport no is goire don phort ina mbeidh an long de thurus na huaire, agus luadhfar sa bhfógra san na scóranna ar ar coinníodh an long no ar ar bunuíodh na himeachta.
Costas coinnithe long.
64.—Má coinnítear long do réir aon fhorála den Acht so le n-a bhforáltar long do choinneáil go dtí go dtárlóidh teagmhas áirithe, beidh feidhm ag fo-alt (2) d'alt a ceithre chéad is seasea den Phríomh-Acht (fo-alt le n-a ndeintear socrú i dtaobh costaisí an Aire mar gheall ar choinneáil agus suirbhéireacht na luinge agus maidir leis an gcéanna) fé is dá ndeintí an long do choinneáil go buan do réir bhrí an fho-ailt sin.
Deimhnithe bréige do dhéanamh.
65.—Beidh feidhm ag forálacha ailt a dhá chéad a dó ochtód den Phríomh-Acht (alt le n-a bhforchuirtear pionóisí mar gheall ar dheimhnithe bréige galtán paisnéara do dhéanamh) maidir le haon deimhniú is gá chun crícheanna an Achta so fé mar a bhíonn feidhm acu maidir le deimhniú galtáin phaisnéara.
Míniú agus léiriú.
66.—(1) San Acht so tá leis na habairtí seo leanas na bríonna ceaptar dóibh fé seach leis seo, sé sin le rá:—
Cialluíonn “an Convensiún um Shábháltacht” an Convensiún Eadarnáisiúnta um Shábháltacht Anama ar Muir do sighníodh i Lundain an 31adh lá de Bhealtaine, 1929;
Cialluíonn “an Convensiún um Ualach-Líne” an Convensiún um Ualach-Líne Eadarnáisiúnta do sighníodh i Lundain an 5adh lá d'Iúl, 1930;
Cialluíonn “Aire” an tAire Tionnscail agus Tráchtála;
Cialluíonn “long le Saorstát Éireann” aon long gur i Saorstát Éireann atá a port clárathachta;
Cialluíonn “long ualach-líne le Saorstát Éireann” aon long ualach-líne gur i Saorstát Éireann atá a port clárathachta;
Foluíonn “sarú,” maidir le foráil ar bith, é do theip ar dhuine an fhoráil sin do chólíonadh, agus léireofar an focal “sáruíonn” dá réir sin;
Cialluíonn “na hAchtanna Loingis Cheannaíochta” na Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1921, agus an tAcht so;
Tá an brí céanna le “paisnéir” atá le “passenger” chun críche Coda III den Phríomh-Acht;
Cialluíonn “galtán paisnéara” galtán ar a mbeidh níos mó ná dhá phaisnéir déag á n-iompar;
Cialluíonn “an Príomh-Acht” an Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.
(2) San Acht so déanfar tagairtí do luing do rinneadh roimh aon dáta no dá éis do léiriú mar thagairtí do luing gur roimh an dáta san no dá éis, do réir mar bheidh, do leagadh síos a cíle.
(3) Déanfar aon tagairtí atá san Acht so d'fhoráil ar bith de sna Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1921, do leasuíodh le haon Acht ina dhiaidh sin, agus an tAcht so d'áireamh, déanfar iad do léiriú mar thagairtí don fhoráil sin agus í leasuithe amhlaidh.
Gearr-theideal, luadh agus athghairm.
67.—(1) Féadfar an tAcht Loingis Cheannaíochta (Convensiúin um Shábhaltacht agus um Ualach-Líne), 1933, do ghairm den Acht so agus léireofar é mar éinní amháin leis na Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1921, agus féadfar na hAchtanna Loingis Cheannaíochta, 1894 go 1933, do ghairm de sna hAchtanna san agus den Acht so le chéile.
(2) Beidh na hachtacháin atá leagtha amach i gCuid III den Dara Sceideal a ghabhann leis an Acht so athghairmthe, sa mhéid a luaidhtear sa dara colún den Chuid sin den Sceideal san, o dháta an Achta so do rith.
CEAD SCEIDEAL.
Rialacha Maidir le Doirse Dionmhara agus Feisti Eile.
1. Dúnfar na feistí seo leanas go daingean, i dtreo go mbeid díonmhar, sara raghaidh an galtán chun faraige, agus coimeádfar dúnta i gcomhnaí iad faid a bheidh an galtán ar faraige, sé sin le rá:—
(a) dóirse díonmhara ar tuislí, laistíos den imeall-líne, a bheidh sna príomh-roinnteáin trasnacha a roinneann ualach-spásanna eadar-leibheannacha;
(b) taobh-rumaí in aon spás eadar-leibheannach ina mbeidh slat aon taobh-ruma is féidir d'oscailt laistíos de líne ar n-a tarrac ar thaobh an ghaltáin agus có-threormhar leis an leibheann roinnteáin agus an puínte is ísle dhi ceithre troithe go leith, maraon le dó go leith per centum de leithead an ghaltáin, os cionn an uisce ar a mbeidh an galtán ar snámh agus ar í do dhul chun faraige;
(c) taobh-rumaí laistíos den imeall-líne ná féadfar a shroichint faid a bheidh an galtán ar faraige, maraon le n-a gcomhlaí;
(d) oscailtí do dhaoine, d'ualach agus do ghual laistíos den imeall-líne;
Ach le linn soininne in uiscí teo-chreasa beidh éifeacht ag fomhír (b) den mhír seo fé is dá ndeinti “trí troithe go leith” do chur in ionad “ceithre troithe go leith.”
Chun críche na míre seo, tuigfear feiste do bheith laistíos den imeall-líne má bhíonn a slat laistíos den líne sin, agus ní tuigfear taobh-ruma luaidhtear i bhfo-mhír (b) den mhír seo do bheith dúnta go dtí go mbeidh an glas air.
2. Déanfar gach doras díonmhar a bheidh i bpríomh-roinnteán trasnach, agus nách doras a luaidhtear i bhfo-mhír (a) den mhír dheiridh sin roimhe seo, do choimeád dúnta faid a bheidh an galtán ar faraige ach amháin sa mhéid gur gá é d'oscailt chun an ghaltáin d'oibriú, agus nuair a bheidh sé ar oscailt coimeádfar fé réir é chun é do dhúnadh láithreach.
3. Gach pláta so-aistrithe ag dúnadh oscailte i roinnteán, is oscailt atá fén imeall-líne i bpáirt no go hiomlán, beidh sé ina áit sara raghaidh an galtán chun faraige, agus ní déanfar aon phláta den tsórt san do bhaint anuas le linn bheith ar faraige ach amháin i gcás géar-gháidh, agus nuair a beifear ag cur aon phláta den tsórt san thar n-ais ina áit féin déanfar gach ní réasúnta is gá chun a chur in áirithe go mbeidh na siúntaí díonmhar.
4. Déanfar clúdach agus comhla gach líméar luaithrigh, líméar dríodair no feiste eile den tsórt san, gur laistíos den imeall-líne a bheidh a oscailt inmheánach, do choimead dúnta go daingean nuair ná beidh an fheiste in úsáid.
5. Déanfar, uair sa tseachtain agus fós sara raghaidh an galtán chun faraige ar aon turus is deallrathach a thógfaidh níos mó ná seachtain, cleachtadh ar gach doras díonmhar agus feiste eile, den tsórt a luaidhtear i bhfo-mhíreanna (a), (b) agus (c) de mhír 1 agus i míreanna 2 agus 4 den Sceideal so, agus ar inneallach dúnta gach scuipéara gur laistíos den imeall-líne a bheidh a oscailt inmheánach, cleachtadh ortha san uile d'oscailt agus do dhúnadh:
Ach faid a bheidh an galtán ar faraige—
(a) déanfar cleachtadh gach lá ar gach doras díonmhar den tsórt san a bheidh in úsáid, agus a bheidh ar tuislí no bheidh á oibriú le comhacht, d'oscailt agus do dhúnadh;
(b) ní tuigfear éinní sa mhír seo do bheith á údarú aon doras díonmhar no feiste eile d'oscailt is gá do réir mhíre 1 den Sceideal so do choimeád dúnta.
6. Déanfar iniúchadh, uair sa tseachtain ar a laighead, ar gach comhla is gá do dhúnadh chun seoimrín ar bith do dhéanamh díonmhar agus ar gach doras díonmhar i bpríomh-roinnteán trasnach agus ar an inneallach agus ar na faisnéisirí ghabhann leis an gcéanna.
7. Cuirfear iontráil ar breacadh sa leabhar turuis oifigiúil—
(a) i dtaobh an ama a hosclófar agus a dúnfar gach doras díonmhar a bheidh á oibriú le comhacht agus a bheidh feistithe idir buncaerí sna spáis eadar-leibheannacha laistíos den leibheann roinnteáin, agus gach pláta so-aistrithe den tsórt a luaidhtear i mír 3 den Sceideal so, agus gach doras díonmhar agus feiste eile den tsórt a luaidhtear i mír 1 den Sceideal so; agus
(b) i dtaobh gach ócáide ar a ndéanfar cleachtadh ar bord na luinge, do réir an Sceidil seo, ar dhóirse díonmhara agus feistí eile d'oscailt agus do dhúnadh; agus
(c) i dtaobh gach ócáide ar a ndéanfar iniúchadh ar dhóirse díonmhara agus feistí eile do réir an Sceidil seo.
8. Sa Sceideal so tá an brí céanna leis na habairtí “leibheann roinnteáin” agus “imeall-líne” fé seach atá leis na habairtí “bulkhead deck” agus “margin line” sna rialacháin um dhéanamh.
DARA SCEIDEAL.
ACHTACHAIN A hATHGHAIRMTEAR.
Cuid I.
ACHTACHAIN A BHEIDH ATHGHAIRMTHE O DHATA TOSACH FEIDHME CODA I.
Gearr-Theideal | Méid na hAthghairme |
An Merchant Shipping Act, 1894. | In alt a dhá chéad a dó seachtod), mir (d) d'fho-alt (3), agus mír (e) d'fho-alt (4); fo-alt (2) d'alta a dhá chéad a cúig ochtód; fo-alt (2) d'alt a ceithre chéad a seacht fichead; alt a ceithre chéad a ceathair triochad. |
An Derelict Vessels (Report) Act, 1896. | An tAcht iomlán. |
An tAcht iomlán. |
Cuid II.
ACHTACHAIN A BHEIDH ATHGHAIRMTHE ON LA CEAPTHA.
Gearr-Theideal | Méid na hAthghairme |
An Merchant Shipping Act, 1894. | Ailt a ceithre chéad a seacht triochad go dtí n-a ceithre chéad a cúig is dachad. |
An Merchant Shipping Act, 1906. | Ailt a haon, a seacht, a hocht agus a deich. |
Cuid III.
ACHTACHAIN A BHEIDH ATHGHAIRMTHE O DHATA AN ACHTA DO RITH.
Gearr-Theideal | Méid na hAthghairme |
An Merchant Shipping (Convention) Act, 1914. | An tAcht iomlán. |
An Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraphy) Act, 1919. | An provísó ghabhann le fo-alt (2) d'alt a haon; i bhfo-alt (4) d'alt a haon na focail “or a wireless telegraphy inspector,” agus na focail “or inspector” sa dá áit ina bhfuil na focail sin; i bhfo-alt (5) d'alt a haon, na focail “or by the Merchant Shipping (Convention) Act, 1914”; i bhfo-alt (2) d'alt a trí, na focail o “and wireless telegraphy inspector” go dti deireadh an fho-ailt sin. |
Number 42 of 1933.
MERCHANT SHIPPING (SAFETY AND LOAD LINE CONVENTIONS) ACT, 1933.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
SAFETY OF LIFE AT SEA.
LOAD LINE AND LOADING.
GENERAL.
Notice to be given to Consular officer where proceedings taken in respect of foreign ships. | |
Number 42 of 1933.
MERCHANT SHIPPING (SAFETY AND LOAD LINE CONVENTIONS) ACT, 1933.
PART I.
Safety of Life at Sea.
Construction and Surveys.
Construction and survey regulations to implement Chapter II of Safety Convention.
1.—(1) The construction regulations applicable to passenger steamers plying on international voyages shall include such requirements as appear to the Minister to implement the provisions relating to construction, machinery, equipment and marking of load lines which are contained in Chapter II of the Safety Convention and the Regulations referred to therein (except in so far as the said provisions are otherwise implemented by the Merchant Shipping Acts):
Provided that—
(a) the Minister may treat any passenger steamer constructed before the first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-one (not being a steamer converted to passenger service on or after that date) as complying with any such requirement, if the Minister is satisfied that such steps, if any, as are reasonable and practicable have been taken, to make the steamer comply with that requirement;
(b) the Minister may, as respects passenger steamers plying on any international coasting voyage, modify any such requirement, if and to the extent that he is satisfied that the risks incurred by passenger steamers plying on that voyage are such as to make it unreasonable or unnecessary to require steamers so plying to comply with that requirement;
(c) the Minister may, as respects steamers for the time being engaged in any passenger trade in which they are employed in the carriage of large numbers of unberthed passengers, modify any such requirement, if he is satisfied that compliance with that requirement by steamers so engaged is impracticable and to the extent that he is satisfied that modifications are required by the conditions of the trade; and
(d) the Minister may, as, respects any steamer plying on short international voyages, modify any of the requirements of the construction regulations which implement the provisions of the Safety Convention contained in Regulations IX, X, XV and XIX thereof, if and to the extent that the Minister is satisfied that that requirement is neither reasonable nor practicable in the case of that steamer.
(2) If it appears to the Minister—
(a) that passenger steamers plying on any international voyage incur exceptional risks owing to weather and traffic conditions; and
(b) that owing to the small proportion of space allotted to cargo in any steamer constructed after the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, or converted to passenger service after that date, the steamer can be sub-divided to a greater extent than is required by the Safety Convention;
the Minister shall direct a ship surveyor to satisfy himself before stating in a declaration of survey that the steamer is fit to ply on that voyage, that the steamer is sub-divided to such greater extent as appears to the Minister to be practicable and expedient in the interests of safety.
(3) The survey regulations applicable to passenger steamers plying on international voyages shall include such requirements as appear to the Minister to implement the provisions relating to surveys which are contained in Chapter II of the Safety Convention and the Regulations referred to therein (except in so far as the said provisions are otherwise implemented by the Merchant Shipping Acts).
Amendments as to declarations of survey.
2.—(1) A declaration of survey made by a ship surveyor in respect of a passenger steamer shall, instead of stating the particulars required by paragraph (d) of sub-section (3) of section two hundred and seventy-two of the Principal Act, state the voyages or class of voyages on which, as regards construction and equipment, the steamer is in the surveyor's judgment fit to ply·
(2) A declaration of survey made by an engineer surveyor in respect of a passenger steamer shall, instead of stating the particulars required by paragraph (e) of sub-section (4) of the said section, state the voyages or class of voyages on which, as regards machinery, the steamer is in the surveyor's judgment fit to ply.
(3) If in the judgment of any such surveyor a passenger steamer is fit to ply on international voyages while engaged in a special passenger trade only, his declaration of survey shall state that fact.
Alteration of ships and additional surveys.
3.—(1) The owner or master of a passenger steamer to which this section applies shall, as soon as possible after any alteration is made in the steamer's hull, equipments or machinery which affects the efficiency thereof or the seaworthiness of the steamer, give written notice to the Minister containing full particulars of the alteration, and, if notice is not so given, the owner or master of the steamer shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.
(2) If the Minister has reason to believe that since the making of the last declaration of survey in respect of a passenger steamer to which this section applies—
(a) any such alteration as aforesaid has been made in the hull, equipments or machinery of the steamer; or
(b) the hull, equipments or machinery of the steamer have sustained any injury or are otherwise insufficient;
the Minister may, without prejudice to his powers under section two hundred and seventy-nine of the Principal Act, require the steamer to be again surveyed to such extent as he thinks fit, and, if such requirement is not complied with, may cancel any certificate issued in respect of the steamer under section two hundred and seventy-four of the Principal Act or under this Part of this Act.
(3) This section applies to every passenger steamer, whether registered in Saorstát Eireann or not so registered in respect of which any such certificate as aforesaid is for the time being in force, and for the purpose of this section the expression “alteration” in relation to the hull, equipments or machinery of a steamer includes the renewal of any part thereof.
Life-Saving Appliances.
Rules for life-saving appliances to implement Chapter III of Safety Convention.
4.—The rules for life-saving appliances applicable to passenger steamers plying on international voyages shall include such requirements as appear to the Minister to implement the provisions of Chapter III of the Safety Convention and the Regulations referred to therein (except in so far as the said provisions are otherwise implemented by the Merchant Shipping Acts):
Provided that—
(a) the Minister may, on such conditions as he thinks fit, exempt any steamer constructed before the first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, from any such requirement, if and to the extent that he is satisfied that that requirement is either impracticable or unreasonable in the case of that steamer;
(b) the Minister may, as respects passenger steamers plying on any international coasting voyage, modify any such requirement, if and to the extent that he is satisfied that the risks incurred by steamers plying on that voyage are such as to make it unreasonable or unnecessary for such steamers to comply with that requirement;
(c) the Minister may, as respects passenger steamers engaged in any passenger trade in which they are employed in the carriage of large numbers of unberthed passengers, if he is satisfied that it is impracticable for steamers so engaged to comply with the said requirements, modify the said requirements in such manner as may appear to him to be necessary or expedient for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of sub-paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of paragraph 5 of Article twelve of the Safety Convention;
(d) the Minister may, as respects any passenger steamer plying on short international voyages, make such modifications of the said requirements as appear to him to be authorised by the provisions of the Safety Convention contained in sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (2) of Article thirteen, paragraph (4) of Regulation XXXVI, paragraph (11) of Regulation XXXVII, paragraph (2) of Regulation XXXVIII, and Regulation XXXIX.
Amendments of Merchant Shipping Acts as to life-saving appliances.
5.—(1) The power of the Minister under section four hundred and twenty-seven of the Principal Act to make rules for life-saving appliances shall include power to make rules with respect to all or any of the following matters, namely:—
(a) the marking of boats, lifeboats, life-rafts and buoyant apparatus so as to show the dimensions thereof and the number of persons authorised to be carried thereon;
(b) the manning of boats and lifeboats and the qualifications and certificates of lifeboat men;
(c) the provision to be made for mustering the passengers and crew and for embarking them in the boats and lifeboats (including provision as to the lighting of, and as to the means of ingress to, and egress from, different parts of the ship);
(d) the practising of boat drills;
(e) the assignment of specific duties to each member of the crew in the event of emergency;
(f) the methods to be adopted and the appliances to be carried for the prevention, detection and extinction of fire;
(g) the number, description and mode of construction of line throwing appliances to be carried.
(2) Sub-section (1) of section four hundred and thirty of the Principal Act (which imposes penalties for failure to comply with the rules for life-saving appliances) shall be amended by inserting after paragraph (d) thereof the following paragraph:—
“(e) if any provision of the rules for life-saving appliances applicable to the ship is contravened or not complied with.”
(3) The following section shall be substituted for section four hundred and thirty-one of the Principal Act:—
“431.—(1) A surveyor of ships may inspect any ship for the purpose of seeing that the rules for life-saving appliances have been complied with in her case, and for the purpose of any such inspection shall have all the powers of an Inspector of the Department of Industry and Commerce under this Act.
(2) If the surveyor finds that the rules for life-saving appliances have not been complied with, he shall give written notice to the owner or master stating in what respect the said rules have not been complied with, and what, in his opinion, is required to rectify the matter.
(3) Every notice so given shall be communicated in manner directed by the Minister to the Chief Officer of Customs of any port at which the ship may seek to obtain a clearance or transire, and a clearance or transire shall not be granted to the ship and the ship shall be detained until a certificate under the hand of a surveyor of ships is produced to the effect that the matter has been rectified.”
(4) Sub-section (4) of section two hundred and seventy-two of the Principal Act (which relates to the statements to be made in the declaration of survey made by an engineer surveyor) shall be amended by substituting in paragraph (c) thereof the words “appliances for the prevention, detection and extinction of fire” for the words “fire hose”, and sub-section (2) of section two hundred and eighty-five of the Principal Act shall cease to have effect.
(5) Sub-section (1) of section nine of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1906 (which requires the master of every Saorstát Eireann ship to enter in the official log book a statement of every occasion on which boat drill is practised on board the ship) shall be amended by inserting at the end thereof the words “and if, in the case of a passenger steamer, boat drill is not practised on board the ship in any week, the master shall enter a statement of the reasons why boat drill was not practised in that week.”
Wireless Telegraphy.
Wireless telegraphy rules to implement Chapter IV of Safety Convention.
6.—(1) The wireless telegraphy rules applicable to ships plying on international voyages shall include such requirements as appear to the Minister, after consultation with the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs to implement the provisions of Chapter IV of the Safety Convention (except in so far as the said provisions are otherwise implemented by the Merchant Shipping Acts).
(2) The wireless telegraphy rules shall further require that the wireless telegraph installation to be provided on passenger steamers of five thousand tons gross tonnage or upwards shall (after such date not being later than the first day of January nineteen hundred and thirty-five as may be prescribed by the rules) include a wireless direction finding apparatus as required by Article forty-seven and paragraph 17 of Article thirty-one of the Safety Convention.
Amendments of the Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraphy) Act, 1919.
7.—(1) The power of the Minister in consultation with the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs to make rules under sub-section (2) of section one of the Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraphy) Act, 1919, shall include power to make rules—
(a) requiring the master of a ship to enter in the official log book such particulars relating to the operation of the wireless telegraph installation and as to the maintenance of the wireless telegraph service, as may be specified in the rules; and
(b) making provision as to the certificates to be held by, and the duties of, operators and watchers.
(2) If the master of a Saorstát Eireann ship fails to comply with any such requirement, or if any operator or watcher on any such ship contravenes the said rules he shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.
(3) The Minister shall not, in pursuance of the powers conferred on him by the said Act, exempt from the obligations imposed by that Act any ship plying on international voyages, unless the exemption of the ship appears to him to be authorised by paragraph (2) of Article twenty-seven, or by Article twenty-eight, of the Safety Convention.
(4) For the purposes of sub-section (2) of section three of the said Act the expression “passengers” shall have the same meaning as it has for the purpose of Part III of the Principal Act.
Appointment of wireless telegraphy surveyors.
8.—A person appointed to be a surveyor of ships under section seven hundred and twenty-four of the Principal Act may be appointed as a wireless telegraphy surveyor :
Provided that the functions of the Minister under the said section with respect to surveyors of ships shall not be exercised with respect to wireless telegraphy surveyors except with the approval of the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs.
Survey of passenger steamers by wireless telegraphy surveyors.
9.—(1) The survey of a passenger steamer required by the Principal Act shall, in the case of every survey made after the commencement of this Part of this Act in respect of a sea-going steamer which is not exempt under the Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraphy) Act, 1919, from the obligations imposed by that Act, include a survey by a wireless telegraphy surveyor, and accordingly sub-section (1) of section two hundred and seventy-two of that Act shall be amended by inserting after the words “engineer surveyor of ships” the words “and, in the case of a sea-going passenger steamer required to be provided with a wireless telegraph installation, by a wireless telgraphy surveyor.”
(2) The following sub-section shall be inserted at the end of the said section two hundred and seventy-two:—
“(5) The declaration of the wireless telegraphy surveyor shall contain statements of the following particulars, namely:—
(a) the voyages or class of voyages on which, as regards wireless telegraphy, the steamer is fit to ply;
(b) that, having regard to the tonnage of the steamer and the voyages or class of voyages on which she is declared to be fit to ply, the wireless telegraph installation complies with the wireless telegraphy rules;
(c) that the certificates of the wireless telegraphy operators and watchers are such as are required by those rules.”
(3) Section two hundred and seventy-five of the Principal Act (which provides for appeals to a court of survey by persons aggrieved by the declaration of survey of a ship or engineer surveyor) shall be amended by inserting the words “or wireless telegraphy surveyor” after the words “engineer surveyor” in both places where they occur.
Survey of ships other than passenger steamers by wireless telegraphy surveyors.
10.—The owner of every Saorstát Eireann ship of sixteen hundred gross tonnage or upwards not being a passenger steamer or a ship exempt under the Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraphy) Act, 1919, from the obligations imposed by that Act, shall, before the ship first proceeds to sea on an international voyage from a port in Saorstát Eireann after the first day of January nineteen hundred and thirty-four and once in each year thereafter, cause the ship to be surveyed by a wireless telegraphy surveyor in the same manner as if she were a passenger steamer required to be provided with a wireless telegraph installation, and the provisions of sections two hundred and seventy-two, two hundred and seventy-three and two hundred and seventy-five of the Principal Act shall apply accordingly.
Certificates.
Issue of safety certificates and passenger steamers' exemption certificates.
11.—(1) If the Minister on receipt of declarations of survey in respect of a passenger steamer is satisfied that the steamer complies with all the construction regulations, rules for life-saving appliances and wireless telegraphy rules applicable to passenger steamers plying on international voyages, he shall, on the application of the owner of the steamer, issue in respect of the steamer a safety certificate stating that the steamer complies with the requirements of the Safety Convention, and any certificate issued under this sub-section is hereafter in this Part of this Act referred to as “a general safety certificate.”
(2) If, on receipt of declarations of survey in respect of a passenger steamer in the case of which the Minister has modified the construction regulations or the rules for life-saving appliances in pursuance of the foregoing provisions of this Act relating to steamers plying on short international voyages, the Minister is satisfied that the steamer complies with the said regulations and rules as so modified, and also complies with the wireless telegraphy rules applicable to steamers plying on international voyages, the Minister shall, on the application of the owner of the steamer, issue in respect of the steamer a safety certificate stating that the steamer complies with the requirements of the Safety Convention applicable to a short international voyage, and any certificate issued under this sub-section is hereafter in this Part of this Act referred to as “a short voyage safety certificate.”
(3) If the Minister, on receipt of declarations of survey in respect of a passenger steamer, is satisfied that the steamer—
(a) complies with all the construction regulations and rules for life-saving appliances applicable to passenger steamers plying on international voyages or with those regulations and rules as modified in her case in pursuance of the foregoing provisions of this Act relating to steamers plying on short international voyages, and also is exempt under the Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraphy) Act, 1919, from the obligations imposed by that Act; or
(b) complies with the construction regulations and the rules for life-saving appliances applicable to steamers plying on any international coasting voyage or steamers engaged in any special passenger trade, and also either complies with the wireless telegraphy rules applicable to steamers plying on international voyages or is exempt under the Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraphy) Act, 1919, from the obligations imposed by that Act;
he shall, on the application of the owner of the steamer, issue in respect of the steamer—
(i) a safety certificate stating in what respects the steamer complies with the requirements of the Safety Convention; and
(ii) an exemption certificate stating that so long as the steamer plies on the voyages, and is engaged in trades, and complies with the conditions (if any) specified in the certificate, the steamer is exempt in other respects from the requirements of the said Convention;
and any safety certificate and exemption certificate issued under this sub-section are hereafter in this Part of this Act respectively referred to as “a qualified safety certificate” and “a passenger steamer's exemption certificate.”
(4) For the purposes of this section, the Minister may treat—
(a) any passenger steamer constructed before the first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-one (not being a steamer converted to passenger service on or after that date) as complying with the construction regulations applicable in the circumstances; and
(b) any passenger steamer constructed before the first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, as complying with the rules for life-saving appliances applicable in the circumstances;
if he is satisfied that such steps (if any) as are reasonable and practicable have been taken to make the steamer comply with those regulations or rules, as the case may be.
(5) The provisions of this section shall, subject to the provisions hereafter contained in this Part of this Act, apply only to passenger steamers registered in Saorstát Eireann.
Modification of safety certificates as respects life-saving appliances.
12.—(1) If, on any international voyage, a passenger steamer registered in Saorstát Eireann in respect of which a safety certificate is in force has on board a total number of persons less than the number stated in that certificate to be the number for which the life-saving appliances on the steamer provide the Minister or any person authorised by him for the purpose, may, at the request of the master of the steamer, issue a memorandum stating the total number of persons carried on the steamer on that voyage, and the consequent modifications which may be made for the purpose of that voyage in the particulars with respect to life-saving appliances stated in the certificate, and that memorandum shall be annexed to the certificate.
(2) Every such memorandum shall be returned to the Minister at the end of the voyage to which it relates, and, if it is not so returned, the master of the steamer shall be guilty of an offence under this section, and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.
Issue of wireless telegraphy certificates and wireless telegraphy exemption certificates.
13.—(1) On receipt of a declaration of survey by a wireless telegraphy surveyor in respect of a Saorstát Eireann ship not being a passenger steamer, the Minister shall, if satisfied that the ship complies with the wireless telegraphy rules applicable to ships (other than passenger steamers) plying on international voyages, issue a certificate stating that the ship complies with the requirements of the Safety Convention relating to wireless telegraphy, and any certificate issued under this sub-section is hereafter in this Part of this Act referred to as “a wireless telegraphy certificate.”
(2) Where any such ship is exempted under the Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraphy) Act, 1919, from the obligations imposed by that Act, the Minister on the application of the owner of the ship, shall issue an exemption certificate stating that the ship is exempted from the requirements of the Safety Convention relating to wireless telegraphy and specifying the voyages on which, and conditions (if any) on which, the ship is so exempted, and any certificate issued under this sub-section is hereafter in this Part of this Act referred to as “a wireless telegraphy exemption certificate.”
Prohibition on proceeding to sea without certificate.
14.—(1) No ship to which this section applies shall proceed to sea on an international voyage from a port in Saorstát Eireann after the first day of January nineteen hundred and thirty-four unless there is in force in respect of the ship—
(a) in the case of a ship being a passenger steamer, either—
(i) a general safety certificate; or
(ii) a short voyage safety certificate; or
(iii) a qualified safety certificate and passenger steamer's exemption certificate, being a certificate or certificates which by the terms thereof is or are applicable to the voyage on which the ship is about to proceed and to the trade in which she is for the time being engaged;
(b) in the case of a ship not being a passenger steamer, either—
(i) such certificate or certificates as would be required in her case by the foregoing provisions of this section if she were a passenger steamer; or
(ii) a wireless telegraphy certificate; or
(iii) a wireless telegraphy exemption certificate which by the terms thereof is applicable to the voyage on which the ship is about to proceed.
(2) If any ship to which this section applies proceeds, or attempts to proceed, to sea in contravention of this section—
(a) in the case of a ship being a passenger steamer, the master or owner of the steamer shall, without prejudice to any other remedy or penalty under the Merchant Shipping Acts, be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding ten pounds for every passenger carried on board the steamer, and the master or owner of any tender by means of which passengers are taken on board the steamer shall also be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a like penalty for every passenger so taken on board; and
(b) in the case of a ship not being a passenger steamer, the master or owner of the ship shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.
(3) The master of every ship to which this section applies shall produce to the officer of customs from whom a clearance for the ship is demanded for an international voyage, the certificate or certificates required by the foregoing provisions of this section to be in force when the ship proceeds to sea, and a clearance shall not be granted, and the ship may be detained, until the said certificate or certificates are so produced.
(4) Where a passenger steamer's exemption certificate or wireless telegraphy exemption certificate issued in respect of any ship to which this section applies specifies any conditions on which the certificate is issued and those conditions are contravened, the master or owner of the ship shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.
(5) This section applies to Saorstát Eireann ships being passenger steamers or being ships of sixteen hundred tons gross tonnage or upwards.
Miscellaneous provisions as to certificates.
15.—(1) A safety certificate, wireless telegraphy certificate, or exemption certificate issued by the Minister shall not be in force for more than one year from the date of its issue, nor after notice is given by the Minister to the owner, agent, or master of the ship in respect of which it has been issued, that the Minister has cancelled the certificate.
(2) If a Saorstát Eireann ship in respect of which any such certificate has been issued, is absent from Saorstát Eireann at the date when the certificate expires, the Minister or any person authorised by him for the purpose, may, if it appears proper and reasonable so to do, grant such an extension of the certificate as will allow the ship to return to Saorstát Eireann, but no such extension shall have effect for a period exceeding five months from the said date.
(3) Every such certificate shall be in such form as may be prescribed by rules made by the Minister, and those rules shall make such provision as appears to him to be necessary for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of Article fifty-one of the Safety Convention, and may provide for combining a safety certificate in one document with a passenger steamer's certificate.
(4) Any such certificate, and any passenger steamer's certificate combined in one document with a safety certificate, may be signed on behalf of the Minister by any person authorised by the Minister for the purpose, and a certificate purporting to be so signed shall be admissible in evidence in like manner as if it had been signed by one of the persons mentioned in section seven hundred and nineteen of the Principal Act.
(5) The following provisions of the Principal Act shall apply to and in relation to every such certificate issued by the Minister in the same manner as they apply to and in relation to a passenger steamer's certificate, namely, section two hundred and seventy-six (which relates to the transmission of the certificate to the owner of the steamer), section two hundred and seventy-seven (which relates to the fees to be paid for the certificate), section two hundred and seventy-nine (which relates to the cancellation of the certificate), section two hundred and eighty (which relates to the delivery up of the certificate) and section two hundred and eighty-one (which relates to the posting up of the certificate on the ship).
(6) The Minister may request the Government of a country to which the Safety Convention applies to issue a general safety certificate, a short voyage safety certificate or a wireless telegraphy certificate in respect of a Saorstát Eireann ship and a certificate issued in pursuance of such a request and containing a statement that it has been so issued shall have effect for the purposes of this Act as if it had been issued by the Minister.
Provisions as to Safety Convention Ships not Registered in Saorstát Eireann.
Certificates of Convention ships not registered in Saorstát Eireann.
16.—(1) The Minister may, at the request of the Government of a country to which the Safety Convention applies, issue a general safety certificate, a short voyage safety certificate or a wireless telegraphy certificate in respect of a ship of that country if he is satisfied in like manner as in the case of a Saorstát Eireann ship that he can properly issue the certificate, and, where a certificate is issued at such a request, it shall contain a statement that it has been so issued.
(2) With a view to determining the validity in Saorstát Eireann of certificates purporting to have been issued in accordance with the Safety Convention in respect of Safety Convention ships not registered in Saorstát Eireann, the Minister shall make such regulations as appear to him to be necessary for the purpose of giving effect to Article fifty-five of the Safety Convention, and, for the purpose of the provisions hereafter contained in this Part of this Act relating to Safety Convention ships not registered in Saorstát Eireann the expression “a valid Safety Convention certificate” means a certificate or certificates complying with such of those regulations as are applicable in the circumstances.
(3) Where a valid Safety Convention certificate is produced in respect of a Safety Convention passenger steamer, not registered in Saorstát Eireann, and there is attached to the certificate a memorandum which—
(a) has been issued by or under the authority of the Government of the country to which the steamer belongs; and
(b) modifies for the purpose of any particular voyage, in view of the number of persons actually carried on that voyage, the particulars stated in the certificate with respect to life-saving appliances;
the certificate shall have effect for the purpose of that voyage as if it were modified in accordance with the memorandum.
Modifications as to survey of passenger steamers holding Convention certificate.
17.—(1) Where a valid Safety Convention certificate is produced in respect of a Safety Convention passenger steamer not registered in Saorstát Eireann—
(a) the provisions of the Principal Act and of this Act as to the survey of passenger steamers by engineer and wireless telegraphy surveyors shall be deemed to have been complied with in the case of the steamer;
(b) the survey by the ship surveyor shall be limited to ascertaining the number of passengers which the steamer is fit to carry, and it shall not be necessary for the declaration of survey made by that surveyor to contain a statement of any further particulars than those set out in paragraph (e) of sub-section (3) of section two hundred and seventy-two of the Principal Act (which relates to the said number of passengers);
(c) on receipt of such a declaration, the Minister shall issue a certificate under section two hundred and seventy-four of the Principal Act containing only a statement of the particulars set out in paragraph (b) of that section (which relates to the said number of passengers), and a certificate so issued shall have effect as a passenger steamer's certificate.
(2) Where there is produced in respect of any such passenger steamer a valid Safety Convention certificate, and also a certificate issued by or under the authority of the Government of the country to which the steamer belongs, showing the number of passengers which the steamer is fit to carry, and the Minister is satisfied that that number has been determined substantially in the same manner as in the case of a steamer registered in Saorstát Eireann the Minister may if he thinks fit dispense with the survey of the steamer mentioned in the last foregoing sub-section and direct that the last mentioned certificate shall have effect as a passenger steamer's certificate.
Miscellaneous privileges of passenger steamers holding Convention certificate.
18.—Where a valid Safety Convention certificate is produced in respect of a Safety Convention passenger steamer not registered in Saorstát Eireann—
(a) the steamer shall be exempt from the following enactments, namely, paragraphs (d) and (f) of sub-section (1) of section two hundred and ninety of the Principal Act (which relates to the equipment of emigrant ships), and sections four hundred and twenty-seven to four hundred and thirty-one of that Act (which relate to life-saving appliances); and
(b) the steamer shall not be deemed to be unsafe for the purposes of sections four hundred and fifty-nine or four hundred and sixty-two of the Principal Act by reason of the defective condition of her hull, equipment or machinery, unless it appears that the steamer cannot proceed to sea without danger to the passengers or crew owing to the fact that the actual condition of the steamer does not correspond substantially with the particulars stated in the certificate.
Wireless telegraphy provisions applicable to ships holding Convention certificate.
19.—(1) Where a valid Safety Convention certificate is produced in respect of a Safety Convention ship not registered in Saorstát Eireann being a passenger steamer or being a ship of sixteen hundred tons gross tonnage or upwards, then—
(a) if the certificate shows that the ship is wholly exempt from the provisions of the Safety Convention relating to wireless telegraphy, the ship shall be exempt from the provisions of the Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraphy) Act, 1919;
(b) if the certificate shows that the ship is not wholly exempt from the said provisions of the Safety Convention, the following provisions of this section shall apply to the ship in lieu of the provisions of the said Act.
(2) A surveyor of ships may inspect the ship for the purpose of seeing that the wireless telegraph installation and the number of certified operators and watchers carried on the ship correspond substantially with the particulars stated in the certificate.
(3) If it appears to the surveyor that the ship cannot proceed to sea without danger to the passengers or crew owing to the fact that the wireless telegraph installation or the number of operators or watchers does not correspond substantially with the said particulars, the surveyor shall give to the master notice in writing pointing out the deficiency and also pointing out what, in his opinion, is requisite to remedy the deficiency.
(4) Every notice so given shall be communicated in manner directed by the Minister to the chief officer of customs of any port at which the ship may seek to obtain a clearance or transire and to the consular officer for the country to which the ship belongs at or nearest to the port where the ship is for the time being, and a clearance or transire shall not be granted to the ship, and the ship shall be detained, until a certificate under the hand of a surveyor of ships is produced to the effect that the deficiency has been remedied.
Duty to produce Convention certificate.
20.—The master of every Safety Convention ship not registered in Saorstát Eireann being a passenger steamer or being a ship of sixteen hundred tons gross tonnage or upwards, shall produce a valid Safety Convention certificate to the officer of customs, from whom a clearance for the ship is demanded in respect of an international voyage from a port in Saorstát Eireann after the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, and the clearance shall not be granted, and the ship may be detained, until such a certificate is so produced.
Modification of existing provisions for exemption of ships not registered in Saorstát Eireann.
21.—(1) The proviso to section four of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1906, and any Orders in Council thereunder which have the force of law in Saorstát Eireann shall, on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, cease to apply to Safety Convention passenger steamers plying on international voyages.
(2) Section two hundred and eighty-four of the Principal Act (which provides for the recognition of passenger steamers' certificates granted in any part of the British Commonwealth of Nations) and any Order in Council thereunder which has the force of law in Saorstát Eireann and section three hundred and sixty-three of that Act (which provides for the exemption of passenger steamers not registered in any part of the British Commonwealth of Nations from survey) shall, on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, cease to apply to Safety Convention passenger steamers plying on international voyages.
Miscellaneous Provisions for Furthering Safety of Life at Sea.
Duties as to watertight doors and other contrivances.
22.—The rules set out in the First Schedule to this Act with respect to watertight doors and other contrivances shall be complied with in every passenger steamer registered in Saorstát Eireann, and if any of the said rules is contravened in the case of any such steamer, the master thereof shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.
Submersion of sub-division load lines.
23.—(1) Where—
(a) a passenger steamer registered in Saorstát Eireann has been marked with sub-division load lines, that is to say, load lines indicating the depth to which the steamer may be loaded having regard to the extent to which she is sub-divided and to the space for the time being allotted to passengers; and
(b) the appropriate sub-division load line, that is to say, the sub-division load line appropriate to the space for the time being allotted to passengers on the steamer, is lower than the load line indicating the maximum depth to which the steamer is for the time being entitled under Part II of this Act to be loaded;
the steamer shall not be so loaded as to submerge the appropriate sub-division load line on each side of the steamer when the steamer has no list.
(2) If any such steamer is loaded in contravention of this section, the owner or master of the steamer shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, and to such additional fine, not exceeding the amount hereinafter specified, as the court thinks fit to impose, having regard to the extent to which the earning capacity of the ship was, or would have been, increased by reason of the submersion.
(3) The said additional fine shall not exceed one hundred pounds for every inch or fraction of an inch by which the appropriate sub-division load line on each side of the ship was submerged, or would have been submerged if the ship had had no list.
(4) Without prejudice to any proceedings under the foregoing provisions of this section, any such steamer which is loaded in contravention of this section may be detained until she ceases to be so loaded.
(5) The foregoing provisions of this section shall apply to passenger steamers not registered in Saorstát Eireann while they are within any port in Saorstát Eireann as they apply to passenger steamers registered in Saorstát Eireann.
Report of dangers to navigation.
24.—(1) The master of any Saorstát Eireann ship on meeting with dangerous ice, a dangerous derelict, a tropical storm or any other direct danger to navigation, shall send information accordingly, by all means of communication at his disposal and in accordance with rules to be made for the purposes of this section, to ships in the vicinity and to such authorities on shore as may be prescribed by those rules.
(2) Rules for the purposes of this section shall be made by the Minister and shall make such provision as appears to him to be necessary for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of Article forty-four (so far as it relates to safety signals) and of Regulation XLVI of the Safety Convention.
(3) If the master of a ship fails to comply with the provisions of this section, he shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.
(4) Every person in charge of a wireless telegraph station which is under the control of the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs or which is established or installed under licence of the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs, shall, on receiving the signal prescribed by the said rules for indicating that a message is about to be sent under this section, refrain from sending messages for a time sufficient to allow other stations to receive the message, and, if so required by the Minister shall transmit the message in such manner as may be required by the Minister, and compliance with this sub-section shall be deemed to be a condition of every licence granted by the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs under the Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1926:
Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall interfere with the transmission by wireless telegraphy of any signal of distress or urgency prescribed under the next following section of this Act.
(5) For the purposes of this section, the expression “tropical storm” means a hurricane, typhoon, cyclone, or other storm of a similar nature, and the master of a ship shall be deemed to have met with a tropical storm if he has reason to believe that there is such a storm in his vicinity.
(6) The Derelict Vessels (Report) Act, 1896, shall cease to have effect.
Provisions as to signals.
25.—(1) The Minister may by order prescribe what signals shall be signals of distress and urgency, and the signals so prescribed shall be deemed to be signals of distress and urgency respectively.
(2) Rules may be made by the Minister prescribing the circumstances in and the purposes for which any signal prescribed by order under the last foregoing sub-section is to be used, the circumstances in which it is to be revoked and the speed at which any message sent by wireless telegraphy in connection with the signal is to be transmitted, and those rules shall make such provision as appears to the Minister to be necessary for the purpose of giving effect to Articles forty-two and forty-three of the Safety Convention and to Article forty-four thereof so far as it relates to signals of distress and urgency.
(3) If the master of a ship uses or displays or causes or permits any person under his authority to use or display—
(a) any signal prescribed by order under this section except in the circumstances and for the purposes prescribed by the rules made under this section; or
(b) any private signal, whether registered or not, which is liable to be mistaken for any signal so prescribed by order;
he shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds and shall further be liable to pay compensation for any labour undertaken, risk incurred or loss sustained in consequence of the signal having been supposed to be a signal of distress or urgency, and that compensation may, without prejudice to any other remedy, be recovered in the same manner in which salvage is recoverable.
(4) Section four hundred and thirty-four of the Principal Act shall cease to have effect, but nothing in this Part of this Act shall affect any rules made under that section which are in force at the commencement of this Part of this Act, and any such rules shall, until revoked, have effect as if they had been made under the foregoing provisions of this section.
(5) In addition to the private signals which the Minister may refuse to register under section seven hundred and thirty-three of the Principal Act, the Minister may refuse to register any private signal which in his opinion cannot easily be distinguished from signals of urgency or signals prescribed for indicating that a message is about to be sent relating to a danger to navigation, and the Minister may revoke the registration of any such signal registered under the said section of the Principal Act, if in his opinion it cannot easily be so distinguished.
Obligation to render assistance on receiving wireless distress call.
26.—(1) The master of a Saorstát Eireann ship on receiving on his ship a signal of distress by wireless telegraphy from any other ship, shall proceed with all speed to the assistance of the persons in distress, unless he is unable, or in the special circumstances of the case considers it unreasonable or unnecessary, to do so, or unless he is released under the provisions of sub-section (3) or sub-section (4) of this section.
(2) The master of any ship in distress may, after consultation so far as possible with the masters of the ships which answer his signal of distress, requisition such one or more of those ships as he considers best able to render assistance, and it shall be the duty of the master of any Saorstát Eireann ship which is so requisitioned, to comply with the requisition by continuing to proceed with all speed to the assistance of the persons in distress.
(3) A master shall be released from the obligation imposed by sub-section (1) of this section as soon as he is informed by the master of the ship requisitioned, or where more ships than one are requisitioned, all the masters of the ships requisitioned, that he or they are complying with the requisition.
(4) A master shall be released from the obligation imposed by sub-section (1) of this section and, if his ship has been requisitioned, from the obligation imposed by sub-section (2) of this section, if he receives information that assistance is no longer required.
(5) If the master of a Saorstát Eireann ship fails to comply with the foregoing provisions of this section, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour.
(6) If the master of a Saorstát Eireann ship on receiving on his ship a signal of distress by wireless telegraphy from another ship, is unable or, in the special circumstances of the case, considers it unreasonable or unnecessary, to go to the assistance of the persons in distress, he shall forthwith send a message by wireless telegraphy informing the master of that other ship accordingly, and enter in the official log-book his reasons for not going to the assistance of those persons, and if he fails to do so he shall beoguilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction, thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.
(7) Nothing in this section shall affect the provisions of section six of the Maritime Conventions Act, 1911, and compliance by the master of a ship with the provisions of this section shall not affect his right, or the right of any other person, to salvage.
Signalling lamps.
27.—No Saorstát Eireann ship being a ship of over one hundred and fifty tons gross tonnage, shall proceed to sea on an international voyage, unless the ship is provided with a signalling lamp of a type approved by the Minister and if any ship proceeds or attempts to proceed to sea in contravention of this section, the owner or master thereof shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.
Carriage of dangerous goods.
28.—(1) The Minister shall make such rules with respect to the carriage of goods on passenger steamers plying on international voyages as appear to him to be necessary for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of paragraph 1 of Article twenty-four of the Safety Convention.
(2) If any of the rules made in pursuance of this section is contravened in the case of any passenger steamer registered in Saorstát Eireann the master or owner of the steamer shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding three hundred pounds and the steamer shall be deemed for the purposes of section four hundred and fifty-nine of the Principal Act to be unsafe by reason of improper loading.
(3) Any goods declared to be dangerous in their nature by the rules made under this section shall be deemed to be dangerous goods for the purpose of Part V of the Principal Act.
(4) The provisions of this section shall be deemed to be in addition to, and not in substitution for, or in restraint of, any other enactment for the like object, so however that nothing in this section shall be deemed to authorise any person to be sued or prosecuted twice in the same matter.
(5) The foregoing provisions of this section and the rules made thereunder shall apply to passenger steamers not registered in Saorstát Eireann while they are within any port in Saorstát Eireann as they apply to passenger steamers registered in Saorstát Eireann.
Change in Method of giving helm orders.
29.—(1) It shall not be lawful for any person on any Saorstát Eireann ship, when such ship is going ahead, either to give a helm or steering order containing the word “starboard” or the word “right” or any equivalent of either of those words unless such person intends that the head of such ship shall move to the right, or to give a helm or steering order containing the word “port” or the word “left” or any equivalent of either of those words unless such person intends that the head of the ship shall move to the left.
(2) Every person who does any act which is a contravention of this section shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.
Careful navigation near ice.
30.—(1) The master of a Saorstát Eireann ship, when ice is reported on or near his course, shall at night either proceed at a moderate speed or change his course so as to keep amply clear of the ice reported and the area of danger.
(2) If the master of any such ship fails to comply with this section, he shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.
Notice of Atlantic routes.
31.—(1) The owner of any line of passenger steamers crossing the North Atlantic from or to any port in Saorstát Eireann by regular routes shall give public notice, in such manner as may be directed by the Minister, of the routes which it is proposed that the ships belonging to the line should follow, and of any changes which may be made in those routes.
(2) If the owner of any such line of passenger steamers fails to comply with this section, he shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.
Supplemental.
Amendment of section 267 of Principal Act.
32.—For the purpose of Part III of the Principal Act, the expression “passenger” shall not include any person who is on board a ship either in pursuance of the obligation laid upon the master to carry shipwrecked, distressed or other persons or by reason of any circumstances which neither the master nor the owner nor the charterer (if any) of the ship could have prevented or forestalled, and accordingly section two hundred and sixty-seven of the principal Act shall be amended by inserting after the words “family and servants” the words “and persons on board the ship either in pursuance of the obligation laid upon the master to carry shipwrecked, distressed or other persons or by reason of any circumstance which neither the master nor the owner nor the charterer (if any) could have prevented or forestalled.”
Power to amend rules and regulations to correspond with amendments of Safety Convention.
33.—Where the Minister is required by this Part of this Act to give effect to, or implement, any provision of the Safety Convention by any rules or regulations, and that provision is amended in pursuance of Article sixty-one of that Convention, the Minister may amend the rules or regulations accordingly.
Certain rules and regulations to be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas.
34.—(1) Where any of the construction regulations, survey regulations or rules for life-saving appliances applicable to passenger steamers plying on international voyages, or any of the wireless telegraphy rules applicable to ships plying on international voyages, being a regulation or rule made after the passing of this Act and in force at the commencement of this Part of this Act, contains, in the opinion of the Minister a requirement which—
(a) is at variance with any specific requirement of the Safety Convention; and
(b) was not contained in the regulations or rules in force at the passing of this Act;
the regulation or rule, as the case may be, shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after the commencement of this Part of this Act.
(2) Where any of the construction regulations, survey regulations or wireless telegraphy rules, being a regulation or rule applicable as aforesaid and made after the commencement of this Part of this Act, contains, in the opinion of the Minister, such a requirement as aforesaid, it shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made.
(3) All rules for life-saving appliances made after the commencement of this Part of this Act shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after they are made, together with a report stating whether any, and if so which, of the rules applicable to passenger steamers plying on international voyages contains, in the opinion of the Minister, such a requirement as aforesaid, and all rules for life-saving appliances made before the commencement of this Part of this Act, which have not come into force before the commencement of this Part of this Act, shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after the commencement of this Part of this Act, together with such a report as aforesaid.
(4) If either House within the next subsequent twenty days on which that House has sat after—
(a) any regulation or rule is laid before it in pursuance of sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of this section; or
(b) any rule is laid before it which is reported in pursuance of sub-section (3) of this section to contain such a requirement as aforesaid;
resolves that the regulation or rule shall be annulled, the regulation or rule shall thenceforth be void, but without prejudice to anything previously done thereunder or to the making of a new regulation or rule.
(5) Sub-section (2) of section four hundred and twenty-seven of the Principal Act shall cease to have effect.
Interpretation of Part I.
35.—In this Part of this Act the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say:—
“Construction regulations” means such of the regulations made under section seven hundred and twenty-four of the Principal Act as prescribe the matters with respect to which a surveyor of ships must be satisfied before he states in a declaration of survey that a passenger steamer is fit to ply on any particular voyages or class of voyages specified in the regulations;
“Country to which the Safety Convention applies” means—
(a) a country the Government of which has been declared to have ratified, or acceded to, the Safety Convention, and has not been declared to have denounced that Convention:
(b) a country to which it has been declared that the Safety Convention has been applied under the provisions of Article sixty-two thereof, not being a country to which it has been declared that that Convention has ceased to apply under the provisions of that Article;
“Declaration of survey” means a declaration made under section two hundred and seventy-two of the Principal Act;
“International voyage” means a voyage from a port in one country to a port in another country, either of those countries being a country to which the Safety Convention applies, “short international voyage” means an international voyage in the course of which a ship does not go more than two hundred miles from land, and “international coasting voyage” means an international voyage in the course of which a ship does not go more than twenty miles from land, so however that for the purpose of this provision—
(a) no account shall be taken of any deviation by a ship from her intended voyage due solely to stress of weather or any other circumstance which neither the master nor the owner nor the charterer (if any) of the ship could have prevented or forestalled; and
(b) every colony, overseas territory, protectorate or territory under suzerainty, and every territory in respect of which a mandate has been accepted on behalf of the League of Nations, shall be deemed to be a separate country;
“Rules for life-saving appliances” means the rules made under section four hundred and twenty-seven of the Principal Act;
“Safety Convention ship” means a ship belonging to a country to which the Safety Convention applies, and the expression “Safety Convention passenger steamer” shall be construed accordingly;
“Special passenger trade” means a trade in relation to which the Minister has modified the construction regulations or the rules for life-saving appliances in pursuance of this Part of this Act;
“Survey regulations” means such of the regulations made under section seven hundred and twenty-four of the Principal Act as prescribe the manner in which surveys of passenger steamers are to be made;
“Wireless telegraphy rules” means the rules made under sub-section (2) of section one of the Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraphy) Act, 1919.
Commencement of Part I and repeal.
36.—(1) This Part of this Act shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may by order appoint.
(2) The enactments set out in Part I of the Second Schedule to this Act shall be repealed, to the extent specified in the second column of that Part of that Schedule, as from the commencement of this Part of this Act.
PART II.
Load Line and Loading.
Preliminary.
Ships exempt from Part II.
37.—(1) The following ships are exempt from this Part of this Act, namely—
(a) sailing ships under eighty tons register engaged solely in the coasting trade;
(b) ships exempted from this Part of this Act under sub-section (2) of this section;
(c) ships solely engaged in fishing;
(d) pleasure yachts.
(2) The Minister may, on such conditions as he thinks fit, exempt from this Part of this Act—
(a) any ship plying on international voyages between the near neighbouring ports of two or more countries, if the Minister and the Governments of those countries are satisfied that the sheltered nature and conditions of the voyages between those ports make it unreasonable or impracticable to apply the provisions of this Part of this Act to ships so plying;
(b) any ship plying on any other voyage between near neighbouring ports if the Minister is satisfied as aforesaid; and
(c) any class of steamers under eighty tons register engaged solely in the coasting trade, so long as they do not carry cargo.
Classification of ships for purpose of Part II.
38.—(1) Ships which are not exempt from this Part of this Act by virtue of the last foregoing section are hereafter in this Act referred to as “load line ships,” and for the purposes of this Part of this Act are divided into the following classes, namely—
(a) international load line ships, that is to say, ships of one hundred and fifty tons gross tonnage or upwards which carry cargo or passengers; and
(b) local load line ships, that is to say, ships of one hundred and fifty tons gross tonnage or upwards which do not carry cargo or passengers, and ships of less than that tonnage.
(2) International load line ships belonging to countries to which the Load Line Convention applies, are hereafter in this Act referred to as “Load Line Convention ships.”
Marking and Submersion of Load Lines.
Load line rules.
39.—(1) The Minister shall make such rules (hereafter in this Act referred to as “the load line rules”) as appear to him to be necessary for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of Articles 6 to 10 of the Load Line Convention and Annex I and Annex II thereto.
(2) Such of the load line rules as are made to give effect to Part II of Annex I to the said Convention are hereafter in this Act referred to as “the conditions of assignment.”
Marking of deck-line and load lines.
40.—(1) No Saorstát Eireann load line ship being a ship constructed after the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, shall proceed to sea unless—
(a) the ship has been surveyed in accordance with the load line rules; and
(b) the ship complies with the conditions of assignment; and
(c) the ship is marked on each side with a mark (hereafter in this Act referred to as a “deck-line”) indicating the position of the uppermost complete deck as defined by the load line rules, and with marks (hereafter in this Act referred to as “load lines”) indicating the several maximum depths to which the ship can be safely loaded in various circumstances prescribed by the load line rules; and
(d) the deck-line and load lines are of the description required by the load line rules, the deck-line is in the position required by those rules, and the load lines are of the number required by such of those rules as are applicable to the ship; and
(e) the load lines are in the position required by such of the load line rules as are applicable to the ship.
(2) No Saorstát Eireann load line ship being a ship constructed before the 1st day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, shall proceed to sea unless—
(a) the ship has been surveyed and marked in accordance with paragraphs (a), (c) and (d) of the last foregoing sub-section; and
(b) the ship complies with the conditions of assignment in principle and also in detail, so far as, in the opinion of the Minister is reasonable and practicable having regard to the efficiency of the protection of openings, the guard rails, the freeing ports and the means of access to the crew's quarters provided by the arrangements, fittings and appliances existing on the ship at the time when she is first surveyed under this section; and
(c) the load lines are either in the position required by paragraph (e) of the last foregoing sub-section or in the position required by the tables that were in force in Saorstát Eireann immediately before the fifth day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty for fixing the position of load lines.
(3) If any ship proceeds or attempts to proceed to sea in contravention of this section, the master or owner thereof shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.
(4) Any ship attempting to proceed to sea without being surveyed and marked as required by this section may be detained until she has been so surveyed and marked, and any ship which does not comply with the conditions of assignment to the extent required in her case by this section shall be deemed to be unsafe for the purpose of section four hundred and fifty-nine of the Principal Act.
Submersion of load line.
41.—(1) Α Saorstát Eireann load line ship shall not be so loaded as to submerge in salt water, when the ship has no list, the appropriate load line on each side of the ship, that is to say, the load line indicating or purporting to indicate the maximum depth to which the ship is for the time being entitled under the load line rules to be loaded.
(2) If any such ship is loaded in contravention of this section, the owner or master of the ship shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, and to such additional fine, not exceeding the amount hereinafter specified, as the court thinks fit to impose having regard to the extent to which the earning capacity of the ship was, or would have been increased by reason of the submersion.
(3) The said additional fine shall not exceed one hundred pounds for every inch or fraction of an inch by which the appropriate load line on each side of the ship was submerged, or would have been submerged if the ship had been in salt water and had had no list.
(4) In any proceedings against an owner or master in respect of a contravention of this section, it shall be a good defence to prove that the contravention was due solely to deviation or delay, being deviation or delay caused solely by stress of weather or other circumstances which neither the master nor the owner nor the charterer (if any) could have prevented or forestalled.
(5) Without prejudice to any proceedings under the foregoing provisions of this section, any ship which is loaded in contravention of this section may be detained until she ceases to be so loaded.
Miscellaneous offences in relation to marks.
42.—If—
(a) the owner or master of a Saorstát Eireann load line ship which has been marked in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act, fails without reasonable cause to keep the ship so marked; or
(b) any person conceals, removes, alters, defaces or obliterates, or suffers any person under his control to conceal, remove, alter, deface or obliterate any mark placed on any such ship in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act, except with the authority of a person entitled under the load line rules to authorise the alteration of the mark or except for the purpose of escaping capture by an enemy;
he shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.
Inspection of ships with respect to load line.
43.—A ship surveyor or engineer surveyor may inspect any Saorstát Eireann load line ship for the purpose of seeing that the provisions of this Part of this Act have been complied with in the case of the ship, and for the purpose of any such inspection any such surveyor shall have all the powers of an inspector of the Department of Industry and Commerce under the Principal Act.
Certificates.
Issue of load line certificates and effect thereof.
44.—(1) Where a Saorstát Eireann load line ship has been surveyed and marked in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act and complies with the conditions of assignment to the extent required in her case by those provisions, there shall be issued to the owner of the ship on his application and on payment of the fee prescribed—
(a) in the case of an international load line ship, a load line certificate hereafter in this Act referred to as “a Load Line Convention certificate”; and
(b) in the case of a local load line ship, a load line certificate hereafter in this Act referred to as “a Saorstát Eireann load line certificate.”
(2) Every such certificate shall be issued either by the Minister or by such other person as may be authorised in that behalf by the Minister, and shall be issued in such form and manner as may be prescribed by the load line rules, and those rules shall make such provision with respect to Load Line Convention certificates as appears to the Minister to be necessary, having regard to the provisions of Rules IV and LXVIII of the Load Line Convention, for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of Article thirteen of that Convention.
(3) Any such certificate issued by the Minister may be signed on behalf of the Minister by any person authorised by the Minister for the purpose, and a certificate purporting to be so signed shall be admissible in evidence in like manner as if it had been signed by one of the persons mentioned in section seven hundred and nineteen of the Principal Act.
(4) The Minister may request the Government of a country to which the Load Line Convention applies to issue a Load Line Convention certificate in respect of a Load Line Convention ship registered in Saorstát Eireann and a certificate issued in pursuance of such a request and containing a statement that it has been so issued shall have effect for the purpose of this Part of this Act as if it had been issued by the Minister.
(5) Where a load line certificate, issued in pursuance of this section and for the time being in force, is produced in respect of a ship, the ship shall, for the purpose of the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act, be deemed to have been surveyed as required by those provisions, and, if the deck-line and load lines on the ship are of the number and description required by the load line rules and the position of the deck-line and load line corresponds with the position specified in the certificate, the ship shall be deemed to be marked as required by those provisions.
Duration, renewal and cancellation of certificates.
45.—(1) Every load line certificate issued by or under the authority of the Minister shall, unless it is renewed in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (2) of this section, expire at the end of such period, not exceeding five years from the date of its issue, as may be specified therein.
(2) Any such load line certificate may, after a survey not less effective than the survey required by the load line rules before the issue of the certificate, be renewed from time to time by the Minister or by any person authorised by the Minister to issue a load line certificate, for such period (not exceeding five years on any occasion) as the Minister or other person renewing the certificate thinks fit.
(3) The Minister shall cancel any such load line certificate in force in respect of a ship, if he has reason to believe that—
(a) material alterations have taken place in the hull or superstructures of the ship which affect the position of the load lines; or
(b) the fittings and appliances for the protection of openings, the guard rails, the freeing ports or the means of access to the crew's quarters have not been maintained on the ship in as effective a condition as they were in when the certificate was issued.
(4) The owner of every ship in respect of which any such certificate has been issued shall, so long as the certificate remains in force, cause the ship to be surveyed in the prescribed manner once at least in each year after the issue of the certificate for the purpose of seeing whether the certificate should remain in force, having regard to the last foregoing sub-section, and if the ship is not so surveyed, the Minister shall cancel the certificate:
Provided that the Minister, if he thinks fit in any particular case, may extend the said period of one year.
(5) Where any such load line certificate has expired or been cancelled, the Minister may require the owner or master of the ship to which the certificate relates to deliver up the certificate as he directs, and the ship may be detained until such requirement has been complied with, and if the owner or master fails without reasonable cause to comply with such requirement, he shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.
(6) On the survey of any ship in pursuance of this section there shall be paid by the owner of the ship such fee as may be prescribed.
Ships not to proceed to sea without certificate.
46.—(1) No Saorstát Eireann ship, being an international load line ship shall proceed to sea unless there is in force in respect of the ship a Load Line Convention certificate.
(2) No Saorstát Eireann ship, being a local load line ship, shall proceed to sea unless there is in force in respect of the ship a Saorstát Eireann load line certificate.
(3) The master of every Saorstát Eireann load line ship shall produce to the officer of Customs, from whom a clearance or transire for the ship is demanded, the certificate which is required by the foregoing provisions of this section to be in force when the ship proceeds to sea, and a clearance or transire shall not be granted, and the ship may be detained, until that certificate is so produced.
(4) The master of every ship which proceeds or attempts to proceed to sea in contravention of this section shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.
Publication of load line certificate and particulars relating to depth of loading.
47.—(1) When a load line certificate has been issued in pursuance of the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act in respect of a Saorstát Eireann load line ship—
(a) the owner of the ship shall forthwith on the receipt of the certificate cause it to be framed and posted up in some conspicuous place on board the ship, and to be kept so framed and posted up and legible so long as the certificate remains in force and the ship is in use; and
(b) the master of the ship, before making any other entry in any official log-book, shall enter therein the particulars as to the position of the deck-line and load lines specified in the certificate.
(2) Before any Saorstát Eireann load line ship leaves any dock, wharf, harbour or other place for the purpose of proceeding to sea, the master thereof shall—
(a) enter in the official log-book such particulars relating to the depth to which the ship is for the time being loaded as the Minister may by regulations prescribe; and
(b) cause a notice, in such form and containing such of the said particulars as may be required by the said regulations, to be posted up in some conspicuous place on board the ship and to be kept so posted up and legible until the ship arrives at some other dock, wharf, harbour or place:
Provided that the Minister may by the said regulations exempt home trade ships or any, class of home trade ships from the requirements of paragraph (b) of this sub-section.
(3) If the master or owner of any Saorstát Eireann load line ship fails to comply with the provisions of this section, he shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.
Insertion of particulars as to load line in agreements with crew.
48.—(1) Before an agreement with the crew of any Saorstát Eireann load line ship in respect of which a load line certificate is in force is signed by any member of the crew, the master of the ship shall insert in the agreement the particulars as to the position of the deck-line and load lines specified in the certificate, and if he fails to do so, he shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.
(2) In the case of a Saorstát Eireann load line ship being a foreign-going ship, a superintendent shall not proceed with the engagement of the crew until—
(a) there is produced to him a load line certificate for the time being in force in respect of the ship; and
(b) he is satisfied that the particulars required by this section have been inserted in the agreement with the crew.
Special Provisions as to Load Line Convention ships not registered in Saorstát Eireann.
Load line certificates of Convention ships not registered in Saorstát Eireann.
49.—(1) The Minister may, at the request of the Government of a country to which the Load Line Convention applies, issue a Load Line Convention certificate in respect of an international load line ship of that country if he is satisfied in like manner as in the case of a Saorstát Eireann ship that he can properly issue the certificate, and where a certificate is issued at such a request, it shall contain a statement that it has been so issued.
(2) With a view to determining the validity in Saorstát Eireann of certificates purporting to have been issued in accordance with the Load Line Convention in respect of Load Line Convention ships not registered in Saorstát Eireann, the Minister shall make such regulations as appear to him to be necessary for the purpose of giving effect to Article seventeen of the Load Line Convention, and, for the purpose of the provisions hereafter contained in this Part of this Act relating to Load Line Convention ships not registered in Saorstát Eireann, the expression “a valid Load Line Convention certificate” means a certificate complying with such of those regulations as are applicable in the circumstances.
Inspection and control of Convention ships not registered in Saorstát Eireann.
50.—(1) A ship surveyor or engineer surveyor may go on board any Load Line Convention ship not registered in Saorstát Eireann when within any port in Saorstát Eireann, for the purpose of demanding the production of any load line certificate for the time being in force in respect of the ship.
(2) If a valid Load Line Convention certificate is produced to the surveyor on any such demand, the surveyor's powers of inspecting the ship with respect to load line shall be limited to seeing—
(a) that the ship is not loaded beyond the limits allowed by the certificate;
(b) that the position of the load lines on the ship corresponds with the position specified in the certificate;
(c) that no material alterations have taken place in the hull or superstructures of the ship which affect the position of the load lines;
(d) that the fittings and appliances for the protection of openings, the guard rails, the freeing ports and the means of access to the crew's quarters have been maintained on the ship in as effective a condition as they were in when the certificate was issued;
and for the purpose of any such inspection the surveyor shall have all the powers of an inspector of the Department of Industry and Commerce under the Principal Act.
(3) If it is found on any such inspection that the ship is loaded beyond the limits allowed by the certificate, the ship may be detained and proceedings may be taken against the master or owner thereof under the provisions hereafter contained in this Part of this Act relating to the submersion of load lines on ships not registered in Saorstát Eireann.
(4) If it is found on any such inspection that the load lines on the ship are not in the position specified in the certificate, the ship may be detained until the matter has been rectified to the satisfaction of the surveyor.
(5) If it is found on any such inspection that the ship has been so materially altered in respect of the matters referred to in paragraphs (c) and (d) of sub-section (2) of this section that the ship is manifestly unfit to proceed to sea without danger to human life, the ship shall be deemed to be unsafe for the purpose of section four hundred and fifty-nine or section four hundred and sixty-two, as the case may be, of the Principal Act:
Provided that where the ship has been detained under either of the last-mentioned sections, the Minister shall order the ship to be released as soon as he is satisfied that the ship is fit to proceed to sea without danger to human life.
(6) If a valid Load Line Convention certificate is not produced to the surveyor on such demand as aforesaid, the surveyor shall have the same power of inspecting the ship, for the purpose of seeing that the provisions of this Part of this Act have been complied with, as if the ship were a Saorstát Eireann ship.
(7) For the purposes of this section a ship shall be deemed to be loaded beyond the limits allowed by the certificate if she is so loaded as to submerge in salt water, when the ship has no list, the appropriate load line on each side of the ship, that is to say, the load line appearing by the certificate to indicate the maximum depth to which the ship is for the time being entitled under the Load Line Convention to be loaded.
Certificates of Convention ships to be produced to Customs.
51.—The master of every Load Line Convention ship not registered in Saorstát Eireann shall produce to the officer of Customs from whom a clearance or transire for the ship from any port in Saorstát Eireann is demanded—
(a) in a case where clearance is demanded in respect of an international voyage, a valid Load Line Convention certificate;
(b) in a case where clearance or transire is demanded in respect of any other voyage, either a valid Load Line Convention certificate or a Saorstát Eireann load line certificate for the time being in force in respect of the ship;
and a clearance or transire shall not be granted, and the ship may be detained, until the certificate required by this section is so produced.
General Provisions as to Ships not Registered in Saorstát Eireann.
Survey, marking and conditions of assignment in case of ships not registered in Saorstát Eireann.
52.—The provisions of section forty of this Act shall apply to load line ships not registered in Saorstát Eireann proceeding or attempting to proceed to sea from ports in Saorstát Eireann as they apply to Saorstát Eireann load line ships, subject to the following modification, namely:—
(a) the said section shall not apply to a Load Line Convention ship not registered in Saorstát Eireann if a valid Load Line Convention certificate is produced in respect of the ship; and
(b) subject to the provisions of paragraph (a) of this section, a ship belonging to any country outside the British Commonwealth of Nations which does not comply with the conditions of assignment to the extent required in her· case by the said section forty shall be deemed to be unsafe for the purpose of section four hundred and sixty-two of the Principal Act.
Submersion of load line on ships not registered in Saorstát Eireann.
53.—The provisions of section forty-one of this Act shall apply to load line ships not registered in Saorstát Eireann while they are within any port in Saorstát Eireann, as they apply to Saorstát Eireann load line ships, subject to the following modifications, namely:—
(a) no Load Line Convention ship shall be detained, and no proceedings shall be taken against the owner or master thereof, by virtue of the said section, except after an inspection by a ship surveyor or engineer surveyor as hereinbefore provided; and
(b) the expression “the appropriate load line”, in relation to any ship not registered in Saorstát Eireann, shall mean—
(i) in the case of a Load Line Convention ship in respect of which there is produced on such an inspection as aforesaid a valid Load Line Convention certificate, the load line appearing by the certificate to indicate the maximum depth to which the ship is for the time being entitled under the Load Line Convention to be loaded;
(ii) in any other case, the load line which corresponds with the load line indicating the maximum depth to which the ship is for the time being entitled under the load line rules to be loaded or, if no load line on the ship corresponds as aforesaid, the lowest load line thereon.
Inspection of ships not registered in Saorstát Eireann.
54.—The provisions of section forty-three of this Act shall apply to load line ships, other than Saorstát Eireann ships or Load Line Convention ships, not registered in Saorstát Eireann while they are within any port in Saorstát Eireann as they apply to Saorstát Eireann load line ships.
Load line certificates of ships not registered in Saorstát Eireann.
55.—(1) The provisions of this Part of this Act relating to the issue, effect, duration, renewal and cancellation of Saorstát Eireann load line certificates shall apply to load line ships not registered in Saorstát Eireann as they apply to Saorstát Eireann load line ships subject to the following modifications, namely:—
(a) any such certificate may be issued in respect of an international load line ship as in respect of a local load line ship, so however that any such certificate issued in respect of a Load Line Convention ship shall only be valid so long as the ship is not plying on international voyages, and shall be endorsed with a statement to that effect, and shall be cancelled by the Minister if he has reason to believe that the ship is so plying; and
(b) the survey required for the purpose of seeing whether the certificate should remain in force shall take place when required by the Minister.
(2) Where the Minister is satisfied—
(a) either—
(i) that by the law in force in any part of the British Commonwealth of Nations provision has been made for the fixing, marking and certifying of load lines on ships (or any class or description of ships) registered in that part of the British Commonwealth of Nations; or
(ii) that provision has been made as aforesaid by the law in force in any country outside the British Commonwealth of Nations with respect to ships (or any class or description of ships) of that country and has also been so made (or has been agreed to be so made) for recognising Saorstát Eireann load line certificates as having the same effect in ports of that country as certificates issued under the said provision; and
(b) that the said provision for the fixing, marking and certifying of load lines is based on the same principles as the corresponding provisions of this Part of this Act and is equally effective;
the Minister may by order direct that load line certificates issued in pursuance of the said provision in respect of ships (or that class or description of ships) registered in that part of the British Commonwealth of Nations or in respect of ships (or that class or description of ships) of that country, outside the British Commonwealth of Nations as the case may be, shall have the same effect for the purpose of this Part of this Act as Saorstát Eireann load line certificates:
Provided that no Order made under this sub-section shall apply to Load Line Convention ships plying on international voyages.
Certificates to be produced to Customs by ships not registered in Saorstát Eireann.
56.—The master of every load line ship, other than a Saorstát Eireann ship or a Load Line Convention ship not registered in Saorstát Eireann shall produce to the officer of Customs, from whom a clearance or transire for the ship from any port in Saorstát Eireann is demanded, either a Saorstát Eireann load line certificate or a certificate having effect under this Act as such a certificate, being a certificate for the time being in force in respect of the ship, and a clearance or transire shall not be granted, and the ship may be detained, until the certificate required by this section is so produced.
Loading of Timber.
Carriage of timber deck cargo.
57.—(1) The Minister shall make regulations (hereafter in this section referred to as the “timber cargo regulations”) as to the conditions on which timber may be carried as cargo in any uncovered space on the deck of any load line ship.
(2) The timber cargo regulations shall contain such regulations as appear to the Minister to be necessary for the purpose of giving effect to paragraph two of Article six of the Load Line Convention.
(3) Subject to the provisions of the last foregoing sub-section, the timber cargo regulations may prescribe generally the conditions on which timber may be carried as aforesaid in any load line ship either on all voyages or on any particular class of voyages and either at all seasons or at any particular season, and in particular may prescribe the manner and position in which the timber is to be stowed and the provision which is to be made on the ship for the safety of the crew.
(4) If any provision of the timber cargo regulations is contravened in the case of any Saorstát Eireann load line ship the master of the ship shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding five hundred pounds:
Provided that in any proceedings against a master in respect of a contravention of the timber cargo regulations, it shall be a good defence to prove that the contravention was due solely to deviation or delay being deviation or delay caused solely by stress of weather or other circumstances which neither the master nor the owner nor the charterer (if any) could have prevented or forestalled.
(5) For securing the observance of the timber cargo regulations, any officer having authority in that behalf from the Minister, either general or special, shall have power to inspect any load line ship carrying timber cargo in any uncovered space on her deck, and for that purpose shall have all the powers of an inspector of the Department of Industry and Commerce under the Principal Act.
(6) The foregoing provisions of this section and the timber cargo regulations shall apply to load line ships not registered in Saorstát Eireann, while they are within any port in Saorstát Eireann, as they apply to Saorstát Eireann load line ships.
Supplemental.
Amendment of sections 436 and 454 of the Principal Act.
58.—(1) In sub-sections (1) and (3) of section four hundred and thirty-six and in sub-section (1) of section four hundred and fifty-four of the Principal Act the expression “free board” shall be substituted for the expression “clear side”.
(2) Sub-section (3) of the said section four hundred and thirty-six shall cease to have effect with respect to load line ships.
(3) The following sub-section shall be substituted for sub-section (5) of the said section four hundred and thirty-six, namely—
“(5) In this section, the expression ‘free-board’ means, in the case of any ship which is marked with a deck-line, the height from the water to the upper edge of the deck-line, and, in the case of any other ship, the height amidship from the water to the upper edge of the deck from which the depth of hold as stated in the register is measured.”
Power to amend rules to correspond with amendments of Load Line Convention.
59.—If any provision of the Load Line Convention to which the Minister is required by this Part of this Act to give effect by any rules or regulations is amended in pursuance of Article twenty of that Convention, the Minister may amend the rules or regulations accordingly.
Interpretation of Part II.
60.—In this Part of this Act the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say:—
“Country to which the Load Line Convention applies,” means—
(a) a country the Government of which has been declared to have ratified, or acceded to, the Load Line Convention, and has not been declared to have denounced that Convention;
(b) a country to which it has been declared that the Load Line Convention has been applied under the provisions of Article twenty-one thereof, not being a country to which it has been declared that that Convention has ceased to apply under the provisions of that Article;
“International voyage” means a voyage from a port in one country to a port in another country, either of those countries being a country to which the Load Line Convention applies, so however that for the purpose of this definition—
(a) no account shall be taken of any deviation by a ship from her intended voyage due solely to stress of weather or any other circumstance which neither the master nor the owner nor the charterer (if any) of the ship could have prevented or forestalled; and
(b) every colony, overseas territory, protectorate or territory under suzerainty, and every territory in respect of which a mandate has been accepted on behalf of the League of Nations, shall be deemed to be a separate country;
“prescribed” means prescribed by the load line rules.
Commencement of Part II and repeal.
61.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this sub-section, this Part of this Act shall come into operation on the appointed day:
Provided that—
(a) where at the passing of this Act there is in force in respect of any ship a certificate issued under section four hundred and forty-three of the Principal Act and that certificate ceases to be in force before the appointed day; or
(b) where before the appointed day a load line certificate is issued in pursuance of this Part of this Act by or under the authority of the Minister in respect of any ship;
this Part of this Act shall come into operation with respect to that ship as from the date on which the certificate ceases to be in force or is issued, as the case may be.
(2) The enactments set out in Part II of the Second Schedule to this Act shall, to the extent specified in the second column of that Part of that Schedule, cease to have effect with respect to any ship as from the date when this Part of this Act comes into operation with respect to that ship and shall be repealed as from the appointed day.
(3) For the purpose of this section the expression “the appointed day” means such day as the Minister may, by Order, appoint.
PART III.
General.
Provisions as to rules and regulations.
62.—(1) Notwithstanding any rules or regulations made in pursuance of this Act for the purpose of giving effect to, or implementing, any provision of the Safety Convention or Load Line Convention which requires a particular fitting, appliance, or apparatus or type thereof, to be fitted or carried in a ship, or any particular provision to be made in a ship, the Minister may allow any other fitting, appliance or apparatus, or type thereof, to be fitted or carried, or any other provision to be made if he is satisfied that that other fitting, appliance or apparatus, or type thereof, or provision, is at least as effective as that required by the Convention.
(2) Where under this Act the Minister is required to make such regulations or rules as appear to him to be necessary for the purpose of giving effect to any of the provisions of the Safety Convention or Load Line Convention, the requirement shall, in the case of a provision the terms of which are such as to vest in the several Governments who are parties to the Convention a discretion as to whether any or what action should be taken thereunder, be construed as an authority to the Minister to make by regulations or rules such provision (if any) with respect to the matter in question as the Minister in the exercise of that discretion thinks proper.
Notice to be given to Consular officer where proceedings taken in respect of foreign ships.
63.—Where any ship belonging to any country outside the British Commonwealth of Nations is detained under this Act, and where any proceedings are taken under this Act against the master or owner of any such ship, notice shall forthwith be served on the consular officer for the country to which the ship belongs at or nearest to the port where the ship is for the time being, and such notice shall specify the grounds on which the ship has been detained or the proceedings have been taken.
Cost of detaining ships.
64.—Where a ship is detained in pursuance of any provision of this Act which provides for the detention of a ship until a certain event occurs, sub-section (2) of section four hundred and sixty of the Principal Act (which makes provision as to the costs of the Minister of and incidental to the detention and survey of the ship) shall apply as if the ship had been finally detained within the meaning of that sub-section.
Forgery of certificates.
65.—The provisions of section two hundred and eighty-two of the Principal Act (which imposes penalties for the forgery of passenger steamers' certificates) shall apply with respect to any certificate required for the purposes of this Act as they apply with respect to a passenger steamer's certificate.
Interpretation and construction.
66.—(1) In this Act the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say:—
“The Safety Convention” means the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea signed in London on the 31st day of May, 1929;
“The Load Line Convention” means the International Load Line Convention signed in London on the 5th day of July, 1930;
“Minister” means the Minister for Industry and Commerce;
“Saorstát Eireann ship” means any ship whose port of registry is situate in Saorstát Eireann;
“Saorstát Eireann load line ship” means any load line ship whose port of registry is situate in Saorstát Eireann;
“Contravention” includes, in relation to any provision, failure to comply with that provision, and the expression “contravenes” shall be construed accordingly;
“The Merchant Shipping Acts” means the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1921, and this Act;
“Passenger” has the same meaning as it has for the purpose of Part III of the Principal Act;
“Passenger steamer” means a steamer carrying more than twelve passengers;
“The Principal Act” means the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.
(2) In this Act references to a ship constructed before or after any date shall be construed as references to a ship the keel of which has been laid before or after that date, as the case may be.
(3) Any references in this Act to any provision of the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1921, which has been amended by any subsequent Act, including this Act, shall be construed as a reference to that provision as so amended.
Short title, citation and repeal.
67.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1933, and shall be construed as one with the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1921, and those Acts and this Act may be cited together as the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1933.
(2) The enactments set out in Part III of the Second Schedule to this Act shall be repealed, to the extent specified in the second column of that Part of that Schedule, as from the passing of this Act.
FIRST SCHEDULE.
Rules With Respect to Watertight Doors and Other Contrivances.
1. The following contrivances shall be securely closed so as to be watertight before the steamer proceeds to sea, and shall always be kept closed while the steamer is at sea, that is to say:—
(a) hinged watertight doors below the margin line, which are fitted in main transverse bulkheads dividing cargo between deck spaces;
(b) sidescuttles in any between deck space, wherein the sill of any sidescuttle which can be opened is below a line drawn on the side of the steamer parallel to the bulkhead deck and having its lowest point four and a half feet, in addition to two and a half per centum of the breadth of the steamer, above the water at which the steamer is floating on proceeding to sea;
(c) sidescuttles below the margin line which will not be accessible while the steamer is at sea, together with their dead-lights;
(d) gangway, cargo and coaling ports below the margin line;
Provided that in fair weather in tropical waters sub-paragraph (b) of this paragraph shall have effect as if “three and a half feet” were substituted for “four and a half feet.”
For the purpose of this paragraph, a contrivance shall be deemed to be below the margin line if the sill thereof is below that line, and a sidescuttle mentioned in sub-paragraph (b) of this paragraph shall not be deemed to be closed unless it is locked.
2. Every watertight door fitted in a main transverse bulkhead, not being a door mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) of the last foregoing paragraph, shall be kept closed while the steamer is at sea except so far as it is necessary to open it for the working of the steamer, and when open shall be kept ready to be closed forthwith.
3. Every portable plate closing an opening in a bulkhead, being an opening which is wholly or partly below the margin line, shall be in place before the steamer proceeds to sea, and no such plate shall be removed at sea except in case of urgent necessity, and in replacing any such plate all reasonable precautions shall be taken to ensure that the joints are watertight.
4. The cover and valve of every ash-shoot, rubbish-shoot or other similar contrivance, having its inboard opening below the margin line, shall be kept securely closed when the contrivance is not in use.
5. The opening and closing of all such watertight doors and other contrivances as are mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of paragraph 1 and paragraphs 2 and 4 of this Schedule, and of the closing mechanism of all scuppers having their inboard opening below the margin line, shall be practised once a week and also before the steamer proceeds to sea on any voyage which is likely to last more than a week:
Provided that while the steamer is at sea—
(a) the opening and closing of all such watertight doors which are in use and are hinged or operated by power, shall be practised daily;
(b) nothing in this paragraph shall be taken to authorise the opening of any watertight door or other contrivance which is required by paragraph 1 of this Schedule to be kept closed.
6. Every valve, the closing of which is necessary to make any compartment watertight, and every watertight door in a main transverse bulkhead and the mechanism and indicators connected therewith, shall be inspected at least once a week.
7. A record shall be entered in the official log book—
(a) of the time of opening and closing every watertight door operated by power which is fitted between bunkers in the between decks below the bulkhead deck, every such portable plate as is mentioned in paragraph 3 of this Schedule and every such watertight door, and other contrivance as is mentioned in paragraph 1 of this Schedule; and
(b) of every occasion on which the opening and closing of watertight doors and other contrivances is practised on board the ship in pursuance of this Schedule; and
(c) of every occasion on which watertight doors and other contrivances have been inspected in pursuance of this Schedule.
8. In this Schedule the expressions “bulkhead deck” and “margin line” have the same meaning as in the construction regulations.
SECOND SCHEDULE.
ENACTMENTS REPEALED.
PART I.
ENACTMENTS REPEALED AS FROM COMMENCEMENT OF PART I.
Short Title | Extent of Repeal |
The Merchant Shipping Act, 1894. | In section two hundred and seventy-two, paragraph (d) of subsection (3), and paragraph (e) of subsection (4); subsection (2) of section two hundred and eighty-five; sub-section (2) of section four hundred and twenty-seven; section four hundred and thirty-four. |
The Derelict Vessels (Report) Act, 1896. | The whole Act. |
The Merchant Shipping (Helm Orders) Act, 1932. | The whole Act. |
Part II.
ENACTMENTS REPEALED AS FROM THE APPOINTED DAY.
Short Title | Extent of Repeal |
The Merchant Shipping Act, 1894. | Sections four hundred and thirty-seven to four hundred and forty-five. |
The Merchant Shipping Act, 1906. | Sections one, seven, eight and ten. |
Part III.
ENACTMENTS REPEALED AS FROM PASSING OF ACT.
Short Title | Extent of Repeal |
The Merchant Shipping (Convention) Act, 1914. | The whole Act. |
The Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraphy) Act, 1919. | The proviso to subsection (2) of section one; in subsection (4) of section one, the words “or a wireless telegraphy inspector,” and the words “or inspector” in both places where those words occur; in subsection (5) of section one, the words “or by the Merchant Shipping (Convention) Act, 1914”; in subsection (2) of section three, the words from “and wireless telegraphy inspector” to the end of that subsection. |