Merchant Shipping Act 2010
Number 14 of 2010
MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 2010
REVISED
Updated to 5 March 2025
This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Merchant Shipping Act 2010. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975 (3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation of statute law.
All Acts up to and including the Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Act 2025 (1/2025), enacted 21 February 2025, and all statutory instruments up to and including the Merchant Shipping (Fire Protection) (Amendment) Rules 2025 (S.I. No. 62 of 2025), made 5 March 2025, were considered in the preparation of this Revised Act.
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Number 14 of 2010
MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 2010
REVISED
Updated to 5 March 2025
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Preliminary and General
Section
1. Short title and collective citation.
4. Offence by body corporate and summary proceedings.
5. Laying of orders, regulations and rules before Houses of Oireachtas.
Construction, Radio, Navigation and Tracking and Bulk Carrier Rules and Categorisation of Vessels
9. Navigation and tracking rules.
10. Exemption of certain ships from certain provisions of Act of 1952.
11. Increase of fines, etc. (Act of 1952).
12. Cargo ship construction and survey rules.
13. Cargo ship safety certificate.
15. Categorisation of vessels under safety regulations.
RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR CERTAIN VESSELS
Chemical Tanker Rules
19. Certification and endorsement (Chapter 1).
20. Duties of owners and masters (Chapter 1).
22. Transfer of ship (Chapter 1).
23. Powers of surveyors (Chapter 1).
Liquefied Gas Carriage Rules
27. Liquefied gas carriage rules.
28. Certification and endorsement (Chapter 2).
29. Duties of owners and masters (Chapter 2).
31. Transfer of ship (Chapter 2).
32. Powers of surveyors (Chapter 2).
Nuclear Carriage Rules
38. Duties of owners and masters (Chapter 3).
40. Powers of surveyors (Chapter 3).
High-Speed Craft
45. Certification and endorsement of high-speed craft (Chapter 4).
46. Duties of owners and masters (Chapter 4).
48. Powers of surveyors (Chapter 4).
Tendering Operations Regulations
52. Tendering operations regulations.
53. Issue of permit to tender.
54. Duties of owners and masters (Chapter 5).
55. Powers of surveyors (Chapter 5).
Safe Manning Regulations
61. Duties of owners and masters (Chapter 6).
62. Powers of surveyors (Chapter 6).
Unsafe ships
Access for Persons with Reduced Mobility to Passenger Vessels
70. Use of codes of practice in criminal proceedings.
72. Powers of authorised persons.
73. Fixed payment notice (Part 4).
Raising of Sunken Vessels
75. Power to raise sunken vessel.
76. Disposal of a raised vessel.
80. Notification to receiver of wreck.
81. Foreign vessels raised under Part 5.
Safety Measures
82. Rules for life-saving appliances and arrangements.
83. Approval of service stations.
85. Entry into log-book of boat-drill, etc.
Maritime Labour Convention 2006
87. Maritime Labour Convention 2006.
Miscellaneous
88. Prohibition on obstruction of surveyor of ships.
89. Application to Circuit Court — compliance order and appeals.
90. Fees — Certificates and inspections under Act and surveys under Act of 1952.
91. Fees — Merchant Shipping (Certification of Seamen) Act 1979.
92. Confirmation of acts of Marine Casualty Investigation Board.
Acts Referred to
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2005, No. 14 |
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1998, No. 21 |
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1996, No. 11 |
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2005, No. 11 |
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1955, No. 29 |
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1979, No. 37 |
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Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) Act 2000 |
2000, No. 14 |
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1998, No. 20 |
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1952, No. 29 |
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1993, No. 34 |
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Merchant Shipping Act 1894 |
1894, c. 60 |
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Merchant Shipping Act 1906 |
1906, c. 48 |
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1966, No. 20 |
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1981, No. 33 |
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1992, No. 2 |
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Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 2000 |
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Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 2005 |
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Sea Pollution (Hazardous Substances) (Compensation) Act 2005 |
2005, No. 9 |
Number 14 of 2010
MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 2010
REVISED
Updated to 5 March 2025
AN ACT TO MAKE PROVISION IN RELATION TO GIVING FURTHER EFFECT TO THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION FOR THE SAFETY OF LIFE AT SEA SIGNED IN LONDON ON 1 NOVEMBER 1974 AND ITS PROTOCOLS, PROVIDING ACCESS TO PASSENGER VESSELS FOR PERSONS WITH REDUCED MOBILITY, TO ENABLE SUNKEN VESSELS TO BE RAISED, TO GIVE THE FORCE OF LAW TO THE MARITIME LABOUR CONVENTION 2006 ADOPTED AT GENEVA ON 23 FEBRUARY 2006, TO AMEND THE MERCHANT SHIPPING ACTS 1894 TO 2005 AND TO AMEND AND EXTEND PART IV OF THE HARBOURS ACT 1996 AND TO PROVIDE FOR RELATED MATTERS.
[3rd July, 2010]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:
Annotations
Modifications (not altering text):
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Functions transferred and references to “Department of Finance” and “Minister for Finance” construed (29.07.2011) by Finance (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2011 (S.I. No. 418 of 2011), arts. 2, 3, 5 and sch. 1 part 2, in effect as per art. 1(2), subject to transitional provisions in arts. 6-9.
2. (1) The administration and business in connection with the performance of any functions transferred by this Order are transferred to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
(2) References to the Department of Finance contained in any Act or instrument made thereunder and relating to the administration and business transferred by paragraph (1) shall, on and after the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
3. The functions conferred on the Minister for Finance by or under the provisions of —
(a) the enactments specified in Schedule 1, and
(b) the statutory instruments specified in Schedule 2,
are transferred to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.
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5. References to the Minister for Finance contained in any Act or instrument under an Act and relating to any functions transferred by this Order shall, from the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.
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Schedule 1
Enactments
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Part 2
1922 to 2011 Enactments
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Number and Year |
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Provision |
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No. 14 of 2010 |
Merchant Shipping Act 2010 |
Sections 52(1), 59(1)(d), 68(5), 83(3), 87(6) and 90 |
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