Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1952
Openings in passenger steamers' hulls and watertight bulkheads.
33. — (1) The Minister may in relation to passenger steamers registered in the State make rules for any of the following matters—
(a) for closing and keeping closed the openings in steamers' hulls and in water-tight bulkheads;
(b) for securing, keeping in place and inspecting contrivances for closing any such openings as aforesaid;
(c) for operating the mechanisms of contrivances for closing any such openings as aforesaid and for drills in connection with the operation thereof;
(d) for requiring entry to be made in the official log-book or other record to be kept of any of the matters aforesaid.
(2) If any of the said rules is not complied with in relation to any such steamer as aforesaid, 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 one hundred pounds.
Annotations
Editorial Notes
E96
A fine of £100 converted (1.01.1999) to €126.97. This translates into a class C fine, not greater than €2,500, as provided (4.01.2011) by Fines Act 2010 (8/2010), ss. 3, 6(3) and table ref. no. 6, S.I. No. 662 of 2010.
E97
Power pursuant to section exercised (1.04.1994) by Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction and Survey) (Amendment) Rules 1994 (S.I. No. 12 of 1994), in effect as per rule 1.
E98
Power pursuant to section exercised (1.01.1989, 1.03.1989) by Merchant Shipping (Closing of Openings in Hulls and in Watertight Bulkheads) Rules 1988 (S.I. No. 371 of 1988), in effect as per rule 1(2).
E99
Power pursuant to section exercised (1.01.1989, 1.03.1989) by Merchant Shipping (Closing of Openings in Enclosed Superstructures and in Bulkheads Above The Bulkhead Deck) Rules 1988 (S.I. No. 370 of 1988), in effect as per rule 1(2).
E100
Power pursuant to section exercised (1.12.1983) by Merchant Shipping (Closing of Openings in Hulls and in Watertight Bulkheads) Rules 1983 (S.I. 315 of 1983), in effect as per rule 1(1).
E101
Previous affecting provision: power pursuant to section exercised (14.05.1967) by Merchant Shipping (Closing of Openings in Hulls and in Watertight Bulkheads) Rules 1967 (S.I. No. 109 of 1967), in effect as per rule 1(5); revoked (1.12.1983) by Merchant Shipping (Closing of Openings in Hulls and in Watertight Bulkheads) Rules 1983 (S.I. 315 of 1983), rule 1(5), in effect as per rule 1(1).
E102
Previous affecting provision: power pursuant to section exercised (19.11.1953) by Merchant Shipping (Closing of Openings in Hulls and in Watertight Bulkheads) Rules 1953 (S.I. No. 346 of 1953), in effect as per rule 4; revoked (3.05.1967) by Merchant Shipping (Closing of Openings in Hulls and in Watertight Bulkheads) Rules 1967 (S.I. No. 109 of 1967), rule 1(6), in effect as per rule 1(5).