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Uimhir 20 de 1966.
AN tACHT LOINGIS CHEANNAÍOCHTA, 1966
[An tiontú oifigiúil.]
Léiriú.
1894, c. 60.
1.—(1) San Acht seo—
ciallaíonn “Acht 1952” an tAcht Loingis Cheannaíochta (Coinbhinsiún Sábháltachta), 1952;
tá le “rialacha um dhéanmhas agus suirbhéireacht lastloinge” an bhrí a shonraítear in alt 3 (1);
tá le “deimhniú sábháilteacha um dhéanmhas lastloinge” an bhrí a shonraítear in alt 4 (1);
ciallaíonn “an Coinbhinsiún” an Coinbhinsiún Idirnáisiúnta um Shábháilteacht Anama ar Muir a síníodh i Londain thar ceann an Rialtais an 17ú lá de Mheitheamh, 1960;
ciallaíonn “an tAire” an tAire Iompair agus Cumhachta;
ciallaíonn “an Príomh-Acht” an Merchant Shipping Act, 1894;
tá le “deimhniú sábháilteachta coinníollta um dhéanmhas lastloinge” an bhrí a shonraítear in alt 4 (2);
ciallaíonn “an Coinbhinsiún Sábháilteachta” an Coinbhinsiún Eadarnáisiúnta um Shábhálteacht Anama ar Muir a síníodh i Londain thar ceann an Rialtais an 10ú lá de Mheitheamh, 1948.
(2) In Acht 1952 ciallóidh “na hAchta Loingis Cheannaíochta” na hAchtanna Loingis Cheannaíochta, 1894 go 1962, agus an tAcht seo; agus forléireofar an tAcht seo agus na hAchtanna sin mar aon ní amháin.
Acht 1952 a chur chun feidhme maidir leis an gCoinbhinsiún.
2.—D'fhonn go bhféadfar éifeacht a thabhairt don Choinbhinsiún (atá curtha in ionad an Choinbhinsiúin Sábháilteachta), beidh éifeacht ag Acht 1952 ionann is—
(a) dá gcuirfí tagairtí don Choinbhinsiún in ionad na dtagairtí atá ann don choinbhinsiún Sábháilteachta; agus
(b) dá bhfolódh tagairtí atá ann don Acht sin, ach amháin in ailt 1 agus 2, tagairtí don Acht seo.
Ceanglais nua maidir le lastlonga
Rialacha um dhéanmhas agus suirbhéireacht lastloinge.
3.—(1) Féadfaidh an tAire rialacha a dhéanamh (dá ngairtear rialacha um dhéanmhas agus suirbhéireacht lastloinge san Acht seo) d'fhorordú ceanglas maidir le cabhail, trealamh agus innealra long lena mbaineann an t-alt seo agus á cheangal go ndéanfar aon longa den sórt sin atá cláraithe sa Stát a shuirbhéireacht a mhéid, sa tslí agus cibé tráthanna a fhorordóidh na rialacha.
(2) Beidh sna rialacha sin cibé ceanglais is dóigh leis an Aire a chuirfidh i gcrích forálacha an Choinbhinsiúin maidir le cabhail, trealamh agus innealra na long sin, ach amháin sa mhéid go mbeidh na forálacha sin á gcur i gcrích faoi aon rialacha nó rialacháin eile a rinneadh faoi na hAchtanna Loingis Cheannaíochta.
(3) Beidh feidhm ag an alt seo maidir le—
(a) longa farraige nach lú ná cúig chéad tonna a dtonnáiste comhiomlán; agus
(b) longa farraige nach lú a dtonnáiste ná cibé tonnáiste is ísle ná sin, agus de cibé tuairisc, a shonróidh an tAire le hordú;
seachas galtáin phaisnéirí, longa trúpaí, luaimh phléisiúir, árthaí iascaireachta, agus longa nach dtiomáintear go meicniúil; ach go mbeidh feidhm aige maidir le longa nach bhfuil cláraithe sa Stát an fad amháin a bheidh siad i gcalafort sa Stát agus nach mbeidh siad díolmhaithe ó na rialacha um dhéanmhas agus suirbhéireacht lastloinge faoi na forálacha seo a leanas den Acht seo.
(4) Beidh ar na hábhair a bhféadfar táillí a cheapadh maidir leo le hordú faoi alt 5 d'Acht 1952 suirbhéireachtaí a cheanglaíonn na rialacha um dhéanmhas agus suirbhéireacht lastloinge a dhéanamh, agus beidh feidhm ag na forálacha a chuirtear chun feidhme le halt 27 (2) den Acht sin (a bhaineann le seachadadh dearbhuithe suirbhéireachta agus achomhairc chun na cúirte suirbhéireachta) maidir leis na suirbhéireachtaí sin cibé acu chun na críche a bhaineann le heisiúint aon deimhnithe nó nach ea a dhéanfar iad.
(5) Maidir le suirbhéireachtaí a cheanglaíonn na rialacha um dhéanmhas agus suirbhéireacht lastloinge a dhéanamh agus a dhéantar ar shlí eile seachas ag suirbhéir long a ceapadh faoi na hAchtanna Loingis Cheannaíochta—
(a) ní bheidh feidhm ag an méid sin d'alt 6 d'Acht 1952 a cheanglaíonn táillí a íoc isteach sa Státchiste nó a chur chun tairbhe don Státchiste; agus
(b) na forálacha a chuirtear chun feidhme le halt 27 (2) d'Acht 1952 beidh feidhm acu faoi réir cibé modhnuithe a fhorordaíonn na rialacháin um dhéanmhas agus suirbhéireacht lastloinge; agus
(c) ní bheidh feidhm ag an míniú ar “dearbhú suirbhéireachta” in alt 3 d'Acht 1952.
(6) Féadfar ordú faoi fho-alt (3) (b) den alt seo a athrú nó a chúlghairm le hordú ina dhiaidh sin.
Deimhnithe sábháilteachta um dhéanmhas lastloinge agus deimhnithe díolúine.
4.—(1) Más deimhin leis an Aire nó le cibé duine a bheidh údaraithe aige chun na críche sin, tar éis dó dearbhuithe suirbhéireachta a fháil maidir le long lena mbaineann alt 3 den Acht seo agus atá cláraithe sa Stát, go gcomhlíonann an long na rialacha um dhéanmhas agus suirbhéireacht lastloinge is inchurtha chun feidhme maidir leis an long agus le cibé turais ar a mbíonn sí ag gabháil, eiseoidh sé deimhniú mar a leanas i leith na loinge má iarrann an t-úinéir é—
(a) mura lú ná cúig chéad tonna tonnáiste comhiomlán na loinge agus go mbeidh sí ag gabháil ar thurais idirnáisiúnta, deimhniú san fhoirm a fhorordaíonn an Coinbhinsiún;
(b) in aon chás eile, deimhniú á thaispeáint go gcomhlíonann sí na rialacha sin;
agus san Acht seo gairtear deimhniú sábháilteachta um dhéanmhas lastloinge d'aon deimhniú den sórt sin.
(2) Más deimhin leis an Aire, tar éis dó dearbhuithe suirbhéireachta a fháil maidir le long den sórt sin, go bhfuil an long díolmhaithe, de bhua é d'fheidhmiú aon chumhachta a thugtar dó le halt 45 d'Acht 1952 nó leis na rialacha um dhéanmhas agus suirbhéireacht lastloinge, ó aon cheann de cheanglais na rialacha sin is inchurtha chun feidhme maidir leis an long agus le cibé turais ar a mbíonn sí ag gabháil, agus go gcomhlíonann sí an chuid eile de na ceanglais sin, eiseoidh sé deimhniú mar a leanas i leith na loinge má iarrann an t-úinéir é—
(a) mura lú a tonnáiste comhiomlán ná cúig chéad tonna agus go mbeidh sí ag gabháil ar thurais idirnáisiúnta—
(i) deimhniú díolúine a déarfaidh cé acu de cheanglais an Choinbhinsiúin, is ceanglais a chuirtear chun críche leis na rialacha agus is inchurtha chun feidhme mar a dúradh, óna bhfuil an long díolmhaithe agus a déarfaidh go bhfuil an díolúine faoi réir an choinníll an long do ghabháil ar na turais agus í do chomhlíonadh na gcoinníollacha (más ann) a shonraítear sa deimhniú; agus
(ii) deimhniú á thaispeáint go gcomhlíonann an long an chuid eile de na ceanglais;
(b) in aon chás eile, deimhniú á thaispeáint go gcomhlíonann an long cibé ceanglais de chuid na rialacha um dhéanmhas agus suirbhéireacht lastloinge is inchurtha chun feidhme maidir leis an long agus leis na turais ar a mbeidh sí ag gabháil agus nach bhfuil sí díolmhaithe uathu;
agus san Acht seo gairtear deimhniú sábháilteachta coinníollta um dhéanmhas lastloinge d'aon deimhniú a eiseofar faoi mhír (a) (ii) nó faoi mhír (b) den fho-alt seo.
(3) Leanfaidh deimhniú a eiseofar faoin alt seo, seachas deimhniú díolúine, i bhfeidhm go ceann cúig bliana nó go ceann cibé tréimhse is giorra ná sin a shonrófar ann, ach sin gan dochar do chumhacht an Aire é a chealú; agus leanfaidh deimhniú díolúine a eiseofar faoin alt seo i bhfeidhm an fad céanna a leanfaidh an deimhniú coinníollta comhfhreagrach i bhfeidhm.
(4) Féadfaidh an tAire le hordú an tréimhse a bhféadfar deimhniú faoin alt seo a eisiúint ina haghaidh a fhadú go dtí tréimhse sé bliana ar a mhéid.
(5) Gan dochar don chumhacht chun tréimhse a fhadú a thugtar le halt 27 (5) d'Acht 1952, i gcás ina mbeidh deimhniú faoin alt seo i bhfeidhm maidir le long agus gur eisíodh an deimhniú in aghaidh tréimhse is giorra ná a cheadaítear faoi na forálacha sin roimhe seo den alt seo, féadfaidh an tAire nó aon duine a bheidh údaraithe aige chun na críche sin, más deimhin leis, tar éis dó dearbhuithe suirbhéireachta a fháil maidir leis an long, gur cuí é a dhéanamh, ré an deimhnithe a fhadú go ceann tréimhse nach faide ná bliain, agus nach faide agus an tréimhse ar eisíodh é ina haghaidh, agus aon tréimhse a cuireadh d'fhad léi roimhe sin faoin bhfo-alt seo a chur san áireamh, ná an tréimhse ab fhaide a bhféadfaí é a eisiúint ina haghaidh faoin alt seo.
(6) Maidir le deimhniú arna eisiúint nó arna fhadú faoin alt seo ag duine a bheidh údaraithe ag an Aire, beidh feidhm—
(a) ag na forálacha a chuirtear chun feidhme le halt 27 (8) d'Acht 1952 (a bhaineann le deimhnithe a eiseoidh an tAire a chur ar aghaidh, a chealú, a thabhairt suas, a phostáil suas agus a fhalsú), ach amháin alt 276 den Phríomh-Acht (deimhnithe a chur ar aghaidh), agus
(b) ag alt 5 d'Acht 1952 (táillí);
díreach mar atá feidhm acu maidir le deimhnithe ón Aire, ach ní bheidh feidhm ag an méid sin d'alt 6 d'Acht 1952 a cheanglaíonn táillí a íoc isteach sa Státchiste nó a chur chun tairbhe don Státchiste.
(7) Féadfar ordú faoi fho-alt (4) den alt seo a athrú nó a chúlghairm le hordú ina dhiaidh sin.
Fógra i dtaobh athruithe agus suirbhéireachtaí breise.
5.—(1) An dualgas atá ar úinéir nó máistir loinge faoi alt 25 (2) d'Acht 1952 fógra a thabhairt i dtaobh athruithe agus athnuachaintí beidh réim aige, i gcás long a bhfuil deimhniú faoi alt 4 den Acht seo i bhfeidhm ina leith maidir leis an gcabhail, maidir leis an innealra agus maidir le haon trealamh seachas a bhfuil luaite san fho-alt sin, ach más duine a bhí údaraithe faoin alt sin 4 a d'eisigh an deimhniú, féadfar an dualgas sin a chomhlíonadh trí fhógra a thabhairt dó in ionad é a thabhairt don Aire.
(2) Beidh éifeacht ag fo-alt (4) den alt sin 25 (suirbhéireacht bhreise agus deimhnithe a chealú) maidir le haon long den sórt sin, ionann is—
(a) dá mbeadh réim ag mír (a) de maidir le haon athrú nó athnuachan nach foláir de bhua an ailt seo fógra a thabhairt ina thaobh; agus
(b) dá mbeadh mír (b) agus nach mbeadh mír (c) de inchurtha chun feidhme d'ainneoin nach galtán paisinéirí í an long;
agus beidh cumhacht an Aire faoin bhfo-alt sin chun deimhniú den sórt sin a chealú infheidhmithe freisin i gcás nár cuireadh an long le suirbhéireacht a dhéanamh uirthi mar a cheanglaítear leis na rialacha um dhéanmhas agus suirbhéireacht lastloinge.
Toirmeasc ar dhul chun farraige gan na deimhnithe iomchuí.
6.—(1) Ní rachaidh aon long lena mbaineann alt 3 den Acht seo agus atá cláraithe sa Stát chun farraige mura mbeidh—
(a) deimhniú sábháilteachta um dhéanmhas lastloinge; nó
(b) deimhniú sábháilteachta coinníollta um dhéanmhas lastloinge agus, má tá an long ar tí dul ar thuras idirnáisiúnta, deimhniú díolúine comhfhreagrach; nó
(c) cibé deimhniú nó deimhnithe a bheadh ag teastáil dá mba ghaltán paisinéirí í,
inchurtha chun feidhme maidir leis an long and leis an turas ar a bhfuil sé ar tí dul i bhfeidhm maidir leis an long.
(2) Má théann aon long chun farraige nó má fhéachann sí dul chun farraige contrártha don alt seo, beidh úinéir nó máistir na loinge ciontach i gcion agus ar a chiontú ann go hachomair dlífear fíneáil nach mó ná céad punt a chur air.
(3) Déanfaidh máistir gach loinge lena mbaineann alt 3 den Acht seo agus atá cláraithe sa Stát an deimhniú nó na deimhnithe a cheanglaítear leis na forálacha sin roimhe seo den alt seo a thabhairt ar aird don oifigeach custam ar a n-éileofar imréiteach don long; agus ní thabharfar an t-imréiteach, agus féadfar an long a choinneáil, go dtí go dtabharfar an deimhniú nó na deimhnithe sin ar aird amhlaidh.
Díolúine do longa ag a bhfuil na deimhnithe iomchuí.
7.—I gcás ina dtabharfar ar aird maidir le long nach bhfuil cláraithe sa Stát—
(a) deimhniú Coinbhinsúin Sábháilteachta inghlactha agus arb ionann é agus deimhniú sábháilteachta um dhéanmhas lastloinge; nó
(b) deimhnithe Coinbhinsiúin Sábháilteachta inghlactha agus arb ionann iad faoi seach agus deimhniú sábháilteachta coinníollta um dhéanmhas lastloinge agus deimhniú díolúine comhfhreagrach;
beidh an long díolmhaithe ó na rialacha um dhéanmhas agus suirbhéireacht lastloinge.
Pionós faoi neamhchomhlíonadh rialacha agus cumhacht choinneála.
8.—(1) Má sháraítear na rialacha um dhéanmhas agus suirbhéireacht lastloinge in aon slí maidir le long, beidh úinéir nó máistir na loinge sin ciontach i gcion agus ar é a chiontú ar díotáil dlífear fínéail nach mó ná cúig chéad punt a chur air, nó ar é a chiontú go hachomair dlífear fíneáil nach mó ná céad punt a chur air.
(2) Féadfaidh suirbhéir long aon long a iniúchadh lena chinntiú go gcomhlíonann sí forálacha na rialacha um dhéanmhas agus suirbhéireacht lastloinge (seachas na rialacha a bhaineann le suirbhéireacht) agus chun na críche sin beidh aige cumhachtaí uile cigire de chuid na Roinne Iompair agus Cumhachta; agus má fhaigheann sé amach nach gcomhlíonann an long na forálacha sin, tabharfaidh sé fógra i scríbhinn don úinéir nó don mháistir á chur in iúl cá bhfuil ag teip ar an long iad a chomhlíonadh agus cad a mheasann sé is gá chun an easpa a chur ina cóir.
(3) Cuirfear gach fógra faoi fho-alt (2) den alt seo i bhfios i slí a ordóidh an tAire don phríomh-oifigeach custam in aon chalafort ina n-iarrfaidh an long imréiteach nó transire; agus coinneofar an long go dtabharfar deimhniú ar aird faoi láimh shuirbhéir long á chur in iúl gur cuireadh an easpa ina cóir.
Rialú Damáiste agus Fearais Tharrthála
Pleananna um rialú damáiste agus eolas cobhsaíochta do ghaltáin phaisinéirí.
9.—Féadfaidh rialacha déanmhais (is iad sin rialacha arna ndéanamh faoi alt 10 d'Acht 1952 maidir le cabhail, trealamh agus innealra galtán paisinéirí atá cláraithe sa Stát) go soláthrófar sna longa sin—
(a) pleananna a chuirfear ar taispeáint mar a fhoráiltear leis na rialacha nó fúthu, agus eolas eile maidir le teorainneacha seomríní uiscedhíonacha, na hoscailtí orthu, an tslí leis na hoscailtí sin a dhúnadh agus na socruithe chun aon staoin mar gheall ar thuiliú a cheartú; agus
(b) eolas is gá mar threoir don mháistir chun dóthain cobhsaíochta a choimeád le go mbeadh an long in ann damáiste a sheasamh.
Leathnú ar chumhacht chun rialacha a dhéanamh maidir le fearais tharrthála.
10.—Déanfar fo-alt (1) d'alt 427 den Phríomh-Acht (a thugann cumhacht don Aire Iompair agus Cumhachta rialacha a dhéanamh maidir le fearais tharrthála) a leasú mar a leanas:—
(a) i mír (e) (buoyant apparatus required to be carried on board ships carrying passengers) fágfar ar lár na focail “carrying passengers”;
(b) cuirfear an mhír seo a leanas isteach i ndiaidh mhír (m):—
“(mm) the provision in ships of plans or other information relating to the means of preventing, detecting, controlling and extinguishing outbreaks of fire”;
(c) i mír (q) (examination of appliances and equipment required by the rules to be carried) cuirfear na focail “and maintenance” isteach i ndiaidh an fhocail “examination”.
Radió-fhearas agus deimhnithe raidió
Ceanglais maidir le raidió-ghaireas iniompair a iomprófar in árthaí tarrthála.
11.—(1) Féadfaidh na rialacha raidió ceanglais a fhorordú maidir le cibé raidió-ghaireas iniompair nach foláir do bháid agus do raftaí tarrthála a iompar faoi rialacha um fhearais tharrthála.
(2) Beidh feidhm ag fo-ailt (7) agus (8) d'alt 15 d'Acht 1952 (a bhaineann le hiniúchadh agus coinneáil long d'fhonn a áirithiú go gcloítear leis na raidió-rialacha) maidir leis an raidió-ghaireas iniompair a cheanglaítear amhlaidh a iompar ar na báid nó ar na raftaí tarrthála a bhíonn ar aon long, díreach mar atá feidhm acu maidir le raidió-fhearas na loinge.
Raidió-fhearas.
12.—In ionad fho-alt (4) d'alt 15 d'Acht 1952 (a shonraíonn an raidió-fhearas a chuirfear de cheangal faoi na raidió-rialacha) cuirfear an fo-alt seo a leanas:—
“(4) An raidió-fhearas is gá faoi na rialacha sin a sholáthar—
(a) do ghaltán paisinéirí d'aon tonnáiste ar bith, nó d'aon long sé chéad déag tonna nó níos mó de thonnáiste comhiomlán nach galtán paisinéirí ná árthach iascaireachta, is fearas raidió-theileagrafaíochta a bheidh ann; agus
(b) d'aon long eile, is fearas raidió-theileafónaíochta nó fearas raidió-theileagrafaíochta, de rogha an úinéara, a bheidh ann.”
Deimhnithe raidió do lastlonga beaga a athnuachan.
13.—I gcás ina mbeidh deimhniú raidió nó deimhniú raidió coinníollta i bhfeidhm maidir le long faoi chúig chéad tonna de thonnáiste comhiomlán, seachas galtán paisinéirí, agus go ndéanfaidh raidió-shuirbhéir suirbhéireacht ar an long tráth nach tuisce ná dhá mhí roimh dheireadh na tréimhse a mbeidh an deimhniú i bhfeidhm ina haghaidh, ansin, más rud é, tar éis an dearbhú suirbhéireachta a fháil, go n-eiseofar deimhniú nua roimh dheireadh na tréimhse sin—
(a) féadfar an deimhniú reatha a chealú; agus
(b) féadfar, d'ainneoin aon ní in alt 27 (3) d'Acht 1952, an deimhniú nua a eisiúint in aghaidh tréimhse dar críoch dáta nach déanaí ná dhá mhí dhéag tar éis deireadh na tréimhse céadluaite.
Ilghnéitheach
Deimhnithe díolúine a eisiúint i gcás ina n-eiseoidh tír de chuid an Choinbhinsiúin deimhnithe coinníollta comhfhreagracha.
14.—I gcás ina n-iarrfaidh an tAire, faoi alt 27 (a) d'Acht 1952, ar rialtas aon tíre lena mbaineann an Coinbhinsiún deimhnithe den sórt a údaraítear don Aire a eisiúint faoi alt 20 (3), alt 22 (2) nó alt 23 (2) den Acht, nó faoi mhír (a) d'alt 4 (2) den Acht seo a eisiúint i leith loinge, agus go mbeidh an rialtas sin toilteanach deimhniú coinníollta a eisiúint faoin gcéanna de bhun an iarrtha sin, ach nach mbeidh siad toilteanach an deimhniú díolúine comhfhreagrach a eisiúint, féadfaidh an tAire an deimhniú díolúine sin a eisiúint i leith na loinge sin.
Eolas i dtaobh cobhsaíocht loinge.
15.—(1) Beidh éifeacht ag na forálacha seo a leanas maidir leis an eolas i dtaobh cobhsaíocht loinge nach foláir a sholáthar faoi alt 32 d'Acht 1952.
(2) Ach amháin mar a fhoráiltear leis an bhfo-alt seo a leanas, beidh an t-eolas, nuair a thabharfar ar dtús é, bunaithe ar chobhsaíocht loinge a chinneadh trí thástáil chlaona, agus aon uair a bheidh athrú ábhartha tagtha ar a chruinneas mar gheall ar athruithe a dhéanamh ar an long, cuirfear eolas nua ina ionad; agus in aon chás mar sin féadfaidh an tAire a cheangal go ndéanfar tástáil chlaona nua.
(3) Féadfaidh an tAire—
(a) i gcás aon loinge, cead a thabhairt an t-eolas a bhunú ar chobhsaíocht comhloinge arna cinneadh trí thástáil chlaona;
(b) i gcás long a bheidh dearrtha go speisialta chun leachtanna nó amh-mhianra a iompar i mbuilce, nó i gcás aon aicme long den sórt sin, an tástáil chlaona a ligean thar ceal más deimhin leis ón eolas a bheidh ar fáil maidir le longa eile den chineál céanna go n-áirithíonn miosúireachtaí agus cóiríochtaí na loinge go mbeadh breis is a dóthain cobhsaíochta inti sna dála luchtaithe go léir a bhainfidh léi.
Modhnú ar alt 46 d'Acht 1952.
16.—Ní choiscfidh fo-alt (1) d'alt 46 d'Acht 1952 (a dhíolmhann longa áirithe ó fhorálacha áirithe)—
(a) cibé forálacha acu sin a luaitear i míreanna (a) agus (b) den fho-alt sin a bhaineann le deimhnithe arna n-eisiúint faoi alt 23 den Acht sin nó a gcothrom de dheimhnithe Coinbhinsiúin Sábháilteachta inghlactha a chur chun feidhme maidir le haon long ar trí chéad tonna nó níos mó a tonnáiste comhiomlán;
(b) cibé forálacha acu sin a luaitear i mír (a) den fho-alt sin a bhaineann le deimhnithe arna n-eisiúint faoi alt 4 den Acht seo a chur chun feidhme maidir le haon long lena mbaineann alt 3 den Acht seo agus atá cláraithe sa Stát;
ar an gcuntar amháin gur lú ná cúig chéad tonna a tonnáiste comhiomlán.
Leathnú ar an dualgas chun contúirtí do loingseoireacht a thuairisciú.
R. & O.R., Uimh. 298 de 1936.
17.—Ar na hábhair nach foláir do mháistir loinge eolas a chur ar aghaidh ina dtaobh de réir na Rialacha Loingis Cheannaíochta (Comharthaí Guaise agus Práinne agus Rabhtha Contabhartha), 1936, agus alt 35 d'Acht 1952, áirítear—
(a) aertheochtaí faoin reophoinnte a ghabhann le gálaí gaoithe a chuireann reothalach trom ar bharrdhéanmhas long; agus
(b) gaotha ar neart 10 nó os a chionn ar Scála Beaufort nach bhfuarthas aon rabhadh stoirme ina dtaobh.
Toirmeasc ar dhul chun farraige ar thuras idirnáisiúnta gan lampa comharthaíochta ceadaithe.
18.—(1) Ní rachaidh aon long ar mó ná céad caoga tonna a tonnáiste comhiomlán agus atá cláraithe sa Stát chun farraige ar thuras idirnáisiúnta gan lampa comharthaíochta de chineál a bheidh ceadaithe ag an Aire a bheith feistithe uirthi.
(2) Má théann aon long chun farraige, nó má fhéachann sí dul chun farraige, contrártha don alt seo, beidh úinéir nó máistir na loinge sin ciontach i gcion agus ar é a chiontú go hachomair dlífear fíneáil nach mó ná fiche punt a chur air.
Longa ag iompar paisinéirí
Leasú ar alt 271 den Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.
19.—(1) Cuirfear an fo-alt seo a leanas in ionad fho-alt (1) d'alt 271 den Phríomh-Acht (a thoirmisceann ar ghaltáin phaisinéirí ag iompar thar dhá phaisinéir déag seoladh gan deimhniú suirbhéireachta):—
“(1) Every passenger steamer which carries more than twelve passengers shall be surveyed once at least in each year in the manner provided in this Part of this Act; and no ship (other than a steam ferry boat working in chains) shall proceed to sea or on any voyage or excursion with more than twelve passengers on board, unless there is in force in respect of the ship a certificate as to survey under this Part of this Act, applicable to the voyage or excursion on which the ship is about to proceed, or that voyage or excursion is one in respect of which the Minister for Transport and Power has exempted the ship from the requirements of this subsection.”
agus i ndeireadh fho-alt (2) den alt sin (a chumasíonn long phaisinéirí a choinneáil go dtí go dtabharfar deimhniú den sórt sin ar aird) cuirfear isteach na focail “unless the voyage or excursion on which she is about to proceed is one in respect of which she has been exempted as aforesaid”.
(2) Déanfar tagairtí sna hAchtanna Loingis Cheannaíochta do ghaltán paisinéirí a fhorléiriú mar thagairtí d'aon long le linn di a bheith, nó a bheith ar tí dul, ar thuras nó ar shaorthuras in aon chás inar gá deimhniú galtáin phaisinéirí a bheith i bhfeidhm ina leith.
Forliontach
Forálacha idirlinne agus aisghairm.
20.—(1) Ní dhéanfaidh aon ní in alt 6 den Acht seo nó in alt 31 (1) d'Acht 1952 a thoirmeasc ar long dul chun farraige gan deimhniú den sórt sin is gá, nó gan deimhniú cothrom leis an gceann is gá, faoin alt sin 6, go ceann dhá bhliain ó dháta tosach feidhme an Achta seo.
(2) Ní dhéanfaidh aon ní in alt 16 (a) den Acht seo nó in alt 26 (1) (b) (ii) nó in alt 31 (1) d'Acht 1952 a thoirmeasc ar long ar lú ná cúig chéad tonna a tonnáiste comhiomlán dul chun farraige gan deimhniú den sórt sin is gá, nó gan deimhniú cothrom leis an gceann is gá, faoin alt sin 26 (1) (b) (ii) go ceann bliana ó dháta tosach feidhme an Achta seo.
(3) Féadfaidh an tAire le rialacháin a fhoráil go ndéanfar mar a leanas chun cibé críocha, in aghaidh cibé tréimhse agus faoi réir cibé coinníollacha a shonrófar leis na rialacháin nó fúthu—
(a) go ndéileálfar chun críocha an Achta seo le haon tír lena mbaineann an Coinbhinsiún Sábháilteachta ionann is dá mba thír í lena mbaineann an Coinbhinsiún; agus
(b) go ndéileálfar le haon deimhniú arbh éard é roimh thosach feidhme an Achta seo deimhniú Coinbhinsiúin Sábháilteachta inghlactha de réir brí Acht 1952 mar a achtaíodh ar dtús é ionann is dá mba dheimhniú Coinbhinsiúin Sábháilteachta inghlactha é de réir brí an Achta sin arna leasú leis an Acht seo.
(4) Déantar leis seo na forálacha seo a leanas d'Acht 1952 a leasú, is é sin le rá—
(a) tríd an míniú ar “na hAchta Loingis Cheannaíochta” in alt 3 (1) a aisghairm;
(b) tríd na focail “faoi na forála roimhe seo den” in alt 28 (1) a scriosadh agus an focal “faoin” a chur ina n-ionad;
(c) tríd na focail ó “agus beidh sé bunaithe” in alt 32 (2) go dtí deireadh an fho-ailt a scriosadh;
(d) trí mhíreanna 2 go 4 sa Dara Sceideal a scriosadh.
Gearrtheideal, comhlua agus tosach feidhme.
21.—(1) Féadfar an tAcht Loingis Cheannaíochta, 1966, a ghairm den Acht seo agus féadfar na hAchtanna Loingis Cheannaíochta, 1894 go 1966, a ghairm de na hAchtanna Loingis Cheannaíochta, 1894 go 1962, agus den Acht seo le chéile.
(2) Tiocfaidh an tAcht seo i bhfeidhm cibé lá a cheapfaidh an Rialtas le hordú.
Number 20 of 1966.
MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT, 1966
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Acts Referred to | |
1952, No. 29 | |
Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 | 1894, c. 60 |
Merchant Shipping (Distress and Urgency Signals and Danger Warning) Rules, 1936 | S.R. & O., No. 298 of 1936 |
Number 20 of 1966.
MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT, 1966
Interpretation.
1.—(1) In this Act—
“the Act of 1952” means the Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act, 1952;
“cargo ship construction and survey rules” has the meaning specified in section 3 (1);
“cargo ship safety construction certificate” has the meaning specified in section 4 (1);
“the Convention” means the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea signed in London on behalf of the Government on the 17th day of June, 1960;
“the Minister” means the Minister for Transport and Power;
“the Principal Act” means the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894;
“qualified cargo ship safety construction certificate” has the meaning specified in section 4 (2) “the Safety Convention” means the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea signed in London on behalf of the Government on the 10th day of June, 1948.
(2) In the Act of 1952 “the Merchant Shipping Acts” shall mean the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1962, and this Act; and this Act shall be construed as one with those Acts.
Application of Act of 1952 to the Convention.
2.—For the purpose of enabling effect to be given to the Convention (which replaces the Safety Convention), the Act of 1952 shall have effect as if—
(a) for references therein to the Safety Convention there were substituted references to the Convention; and
(b) references therein to that Act, except in sections 1 and 2, included references to this Act.
New requirements for cargo ships
Cargo ship construction and survey rules.
3.—(1) The Minister may make rules (in this Act referred to as cargo ship construction and survey rules) prescribing requirements for the hull, equipment and machinery of ships to which this section applies and requiring any such ships which are registered in the State to be surveyed to such extent, in such manner and at such intervals as may be prescribed by the rules.
(2) The said rules shall include such requirements as appear to the Minister to implement the provisions of the Convention relating to the hull, equipment and machinery of such ships, except so far as those provisions are implemented by any other rules or regulations made under the Merchant Shipping Acts.
(3) This section applies to—
(a) sea-going ships of not less than five hundred tons gross tonnage; and
(b) sea-going ships of not less than such lower tonnage and of such description as the Minister may by order specify;
other than passenger steamers, troopships, pleasure yachts, fishing vessels and ships not propelled by mechanical means; except that it applies to ships not registered in the State only while they are within a port in the State and are not exempted from the cargo ship construction and survey rules under the following provisions of this Act.
(4) The matters with regard to which fees may be prescribed by order under section 5 of the Act of 1952 shall include surveys required by the cargo ship construction and survey rules, and the provisions applied by section 27 (2) of that Act (which relate to the delivery of declarations of survey and appeals to the court of survey) shall apply to such surveys whether or not they are made for the purpose of the issue of any certificate.
(5) In relation to surveys required by the cargo ship construction and survey rules which are carried out otherwise than by a surveyor of ships appointed under the Merchant Shipping Acts—
(a) so much of section 6 of the Act of 1952 as requires fees to be paid into or disposed of for the benefit of the Exchequer shall not apply; and
(b) the provisions applied by section 27 (2) of the Act of 1952 shall apply with such modifications as may be prescribed by the cargo ship construction and survey rules; and
(c) the definition of “declaration of survey” in section 3 of the Act of 1952 shall not apply.
(6) An order under subsection (3) (b) of this section may be varied or revoked by a subsequent order.
Cargo ship safety construction certificates and exemption certificates.
4.—(1) If the Minister or such person as he may authorise for the purpose is satisfied, on receipt of declarations of survey in respect of a ship to which section 3 of this Act applies and which is registered in the State, that the ship complies with the cargo ship construction and survey rules applicable to the ship and such voyages as she is to be engaged on, he shall, on the application of the owner, issue in respect of the ship—
(a) if the ship is of not less than five hundred tons gross tonnage and is to be engaged on international voyages, a certificate in the form prescribed by the Convention;
(b) in any other case, a certificate showing that she complies with the said rules;
and any such certificate is in this Act referred to as a cargo ship safety construction certificate.
(2) If the Minister, on receipt of declarations of survey in respect of such a ship, is satisfied that the ship is exempt, by virtue of any exercise by him of a power conferred on him by section 45 of the Act of 1952 or the cargo ship construction and survey rules, from any of the requirements of those rules applicable to the ship and to such voyages as she is to be engaged on, and that she complies with the rest of those requirements, he shall, on the application of the owner, issue in respect of the ship—
(a) if she is of not less than five hundred tons gross tonnage and is to be engaged on international voyages—
(i) an exemption certificate stating which of the requirements of the Convention, being requirements implemented by the rules and applicable as aforesaid, the ship is exempt from and that the exemption is conditional on the ship's plying on the voyages and complying with the other conditions (if any) specified in the certificate; and
(ii) a certificate showing that the ship complies with the rest of those requirements;
(b) in any other case, a certificate showing that the ship complies with such of the requirements of the cargo ship construction and survey rules applicable to the ship and to the voyages she is to be engaged on as she is not exempt from;
and any certificate issued under paragraph (a) (ii) or paragraph (b) of this subsection is in this Act referred to as a qualified cargo ship safety construction certificate.
(3) A certificate issued under this section, other than an exemption certificate, shall remain in force for five years or such shorter period as may be specified in it, but without prejudice to the Minister's power to cancel it; and an exemption certificate issued under this section shall remain in force for the same period as the corresponding qualified certificate.
(4) The Minister may by order extend the period for which a certificate under this section may be issued to a period not exceeding six years.
(5) Without prejudice to the power of extension conferred by section 27 (5) of the Act of 1952, where a certificate under this section is in force in respect of a ship and the certificate was issued for a shorter period than is allowed under the foregoing provisions of this section, the Minister or any person authorised by him for the purpose may, if satisfied on receipt of declarations of survey in respect of the ship that it is proper to do so, grant an extension of the certificate for a period not exceeding one year, and not exceeding, together with the period for which it was issued and any period by which it has been previously extended under this subsection, the longest period for which it could have been issued under this section.
(6) In relation to a certificate issued or extended under this section by a person authorised by the Minister—
(a) the provisions applied by section 27 (8) of the Act of 1952 (which relate to the transmission, cancellation, surrender, posting-up and falsification of certificates issued by the Minister), except section 276 of the Principal Act (transmission of certificates), and
(b) section 5 of the Act of 1952 (fees);
shall apply as they apply in relation to certificates issued by the Minister, but so much of section 6 of the Act of 1952 as requires fees to be paid into or disposed of for the benefit of the Exchequer shall not apply.
(7) An order under subsection (4) of this section may be varied or revoked by a subsequent order.
Notice of alterations and additional surveys.
5.—(1) The duty of the owner or master of a ship under section 25 (2) of the Act of 1952 to notify alterations and renewals shall extend, in relation to any ship in respect of which a certificate under section 4 of this Act is in force, to the hull, machinery and any equipment other than that mentioned in that subsection, but may, if the certificate was issued by a person authorised under the said section 4, be discharged by notifying him instead of the Minister.
(2) Subsection (4) of the said section 25 (additional survey and cancellation of certificates) shall have effect, in relation to any such ship, as if—
(a) paragraph (a) thereof extended to any alteration or renewal which is notifiable by virtue of this section; and
(b) paragraph (b) and not paragraph (c) thereof were applicable, notwithstanding that the ship is not a passenger steamer;
and the power of the Minister under that subsection to cancel such a certificate shall be exercisable also where the ship has not been submitted for survey as required by the cargo ship construction and survey rules.
Prohibition on proceeding to sea without appropriate certificates.
6.—(1) No ship to which section 3 of this Act applies and which is registered in the State shall proceed to sea unless there is in force in respect of the ship either—
(a) a cargo ship safety construction certificate; or
(b) a qualified cargo ship safety construction certificate and, if the ship is about to proceed on an international voyage, a corresponding exemption certificate; or
(c) such certificate or certificates as would be required if she were a passenger steamer,
applicable to the ship and to the voyage on which she is about to proceed.
(2) If any ship proceeds, or attempts to proceed, to sea in contravention of this section, the owner or master of the ship shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof, to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.
(3) The master of every ship to which section 3 of this Act applies and which is registered in the State shall produce to the officer of customs from whom a clearance for the ship is demanded the certificate or certificates required by the foregoing provisions of this section; and the clearance shall not be granted, and the ship may be detained, until the said certificate or certificates are so produced.
Exemption of ships holding appropriate certificates.
7.—Where there is produced in respect of a ship not registered in the State—
(a) an accepted Safety Convention certificate equivalent to a cargo ship safety construction certificate; or
(b) accepted Safety Convention certificates equivalent respectively to a qualified cargo ship safety construction certificate and to a corresponding exemption certificate;
the ship shall be exempt from the cargo ship construction and survey rules.
Penalty for non-compliance with rules and power to detain.
8.—(1) If the cargo ship construction and survey rules are contravened in any respect in relation to a ship, the owner or master of the ship shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction on indictment to a fine not exceeding five hundred pounds, or on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.
(2) A surveyor of ships may inspect any ship for the purpose of seeing that she complies with the provisions of the cargo ship construction and survey rules (other than those relating to survey) and for that purpose shall have all the powers of an inspector of the Department of Transport and Power; and if he finds that the ship fails to comply with those provisions, he shall give to the owner or master notice in writing stating in what respect she fails to comply with them and what in his opinion is requisite to remedy the failure.
(3) Every notice under subsection (2) of this section 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 the ship shall be detained until a certificate under the hand of a surveyor of ships is produced to the effect that the failure has been remedied.
Damage control and life-saving appliances
Damage control plans and stability information for passenger steamers.
9.—Construction rules (that is to say, rules made under section 10 of the Act of 1952 relating to the hull, equipment and machinery of passenger steamers registered in the State) may require the provision in such ships—
(a) of plans exhibited as provided by or under the rules, and of other information, relating to the boundaries of watertight compartments, the openings therein, the means of closing such openings and the arrangements for correcting any list due to flooding; and
(b) of information necessary for the guidance of the master in maintaining sufficient stability to enable the ship to withstand damage.
Extension of power to make rules for life-saving appliances.
10.—Subsection (1) of section 427 of the Principal Act (which empowers the Minister for Transport and Power to make rules for life-saving appliances) shall be amended as follows:—
(a) in paragraph (e) (buoyant apparatus required to be carried on board ships carrying passengers) the words “carrying passengers” shall be omitted;
(b) after paragraph (m) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:—
“(mm) the provision in ships of plans or other information relating to the means of preventing, detecting, controlling and extinguishing outbreaks of fire”;
(c) in paragraph (q) (examination of appliances and equipment required by the rules to be carried) after the word “examination” there shall be inserted the words “and maintenance”.
Radio installations and certificates
Requirements for portable radio apparatus carried in survival craft.
11.—(1) Radio rules may prescribe requirements for such portable radio apparatus as boats or life rafts may be required to carry by the rules for life-saving appliances.
(2) Subsections (7) and (8) of section 15 of the Act of 1952 (which relate to the inspection and detention of ships to ensure conformity with the radio rules) shall apply in relation to the portable radio apparatus so required to be carried by the boats or life rafts on any ship as they apply in relation to the radio installation of the ship.
Radio installations.
12.—For subsection (4) of section 15 of the Act of 1952 (which specifies the radio installations to be required under the radio rules) there shall be substituted the following subsection:—
“(4) The radio installation required under the said rules to be provided—
(a) for a passenger steamer of whatever tonnage, or for any ship of sixteen hundred tons gross tonnage or upwards which is neither a passenger steamer nor a fishing vessel, shall be a radiotelegraph installation; and
(b) for any other ship shall be either a radiotelephone installation or a radiotelegraph installation, at the option of the owner.”
Renewal of radio certificates for small cargo ships.
13.—Where a radio certificate or qualified radio certificate is in force in respect of a ship of less than five hundred tons gross tonnage, other than a passenger steamer, and the ship is surveyed by a radio surveyor at a time not earlier than two months before the end of the period for which the certificate is in force, then, if on receipt of the declaration of survey a new certificate is issued before the end of that period,—
(a) the current certificate may be cancelled; and
(b) the new certificate may, notwithstanding anything in section 27 (3) of the Act of 1952, be issued for a period ending not later than twelve months after the end of the first-mentioned period.
Miscellaneous
Issue of exemption certificates where Convention country issues corresponding qualified certificates.
14.—Where the Minister, under section 27 (9) of the Act of 1952, requests the government of a country to which the Convention applies to issue in respect of a ship such certificates as he is authorised to issue under section 20 (3), section 22 (2) or section 23 (2) of that Act or under paragraph (a) of section 4 (2) of this Act, and that government is willing to issue, in pursuance of that request, a qualified certificate thereunder but is not willing to issue the corresponding exemption certificate, the Minister may issue that exemption certificate in respect of the ship.
Information about ships' stability.
15.—(1) The following provisions of this section shall have effect with respect to the information about a ship's stability which is required to be supplied under section 32 of the Act of 1952.
(2) Except as provided by the following subsection, the information shall, when first supplied, be based on the determination of the ship's stability by means of an inclining test and shall be replaced by fresh information whenever its accuracy is materially affected by alterations made to the ship; and in any such case the Minister may require a fresh inclining test.
(3) The Minister may—
(a) in the case of any ship, allow the information to be based on the determination, by means of an inclining test, of the stability of a sister ship;
(b) in the case of a ship specially designed for the carriage of liquids or ore in bulk, or of any class of such ships, dispense with an inclining test if satisfied from the information available in respect of similar ships that the ship's proportions and arrangements are such as to ensure more than sufficient stability in all probable loading conditions.
Modification of section 46 of Act of 1952.
16.—Subsection (1) of section 46 of the Act of 1952 (which exempts certain ships from certain provisions) shall not prevent the application—
(a) to any ship of three hundred tons gross tonnage or upwards, of so much of the provisions mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b) of that subsection as relates to certificates issued under section 23 of that Act or equivalent accepted Safety Convention certificates;
(b) to any ship to which section 3 of this Act applies and which is registered in the State, of so much of the provisions mentioned in paragraph (a) of that subsection as relates to certificates issued under section 4 of this Act;
by reason only that she is of less than five hundred tons gross tonnage.
Extension of duty to report dangers to navigation.
17.—The matters of which information is to be sent by the master of a ship in accordance with the Merchant Shipping (Distress and Urgency Signals and Danger Warning) Rules, 1936, and section 35 of the Act of 1952 shall include—
(a) air temperatures below freezing point associated with gale force winds causing severe ice accretion on the superstructure of ships; and
(b) winds of force 10 or above on the Beaufort Scale for which no storm warning has been received.
Prohibition on proceeding to sea on international voyage without approved signalling lamp.
18.—(1) No ship of over one hundred and fifty tons gross tonnage which is registered in the State shall proceed to sea on an international voyage unless the ship is provided with a signalling lamp of a type approved of by the Minister.
(2) If any ship proceeds, or attempts to proceed, to sea in contravention of this section, the owner or master of the ship shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.
Ships carrying passengers
Amendment of section 271 of Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.
19.—(1) For subsection (1) of section 271 of the Principal Act (which prohibits passenger steamers carrying more than twelve passengers from sailing without a certificate of survey) there shall be substituted the following subsection:—
“(1) Every passenger steamer which carries more than twelve passengers shall be surveyed once at least in each year in the manner provided in this Part of this Act; and no ship (other than a steam ferry boat working in chains) shall proceed to sea or on any voyage or excursion with more than twelve passengers on board, unless there is in force in respect of the ship a certificate as to survey under this Part of this Act, applicable to the voyage or excursion on which the ship is about to proceed, or that voyage or excursion is one in respect of which the Minister for Transport and Power has exempted the ship from the requirements of this subsection.”
and at the end of subsection (2) of that section (which enables a passenger ship to be detained until such a certificate is produced) there shall be inserted the words “unless the voyage or excursion on which she is about to proceed is one in respect of which she has been exempted as aforesaid”.
(2) References in the Merchant Shipping Acts to a passenger steamer shall be construed as including any ship while on or about to proceed on a voyage or excursion in any case where a passenger steamer's certificate is required to be in force in respect of her.
Supplementary
Transitional provisions and repeals.
20.—(1) Nothing in section 6 of this Act or section 31 (1) of the Act of 1952 shall prohibit a ship from proceeding to sea without such a certificate as is required, or is equivalent to one required, under the said section 6, until the expiry of two years from the commencement of this Act.
(2) Nothing in section 16 (a) of this Act or section 26 (1) (b) (ii) or section 31 (1) of the Act of 1952 shall prohibit a ship of less than five hundred tons gross tonnage from proceeding to sea without such a certificate as is required, or is equivalent to one required, under the said section 26 (1) (b) (ii) until the expiry of one year from the commencement of this Act.
(3) The Minister may by regulations provide that for such purposes, for such a period and subject to such conditions as may be specified by or under the regulations—
(a) any country to which the Safety Convention applies shall be treated for the purposes of this Act as if it were a country to which the Convention applies; and
(b) any certificate which immediately before the commencement of this Act was an accepted Safety Convention certificate within the meaning of the Act of 1952 as originally enacted may be treated as if it were an accepted Safety Convention certificate within the meaning of that Act as amended by this Act.
(4) The following provisions of the Act of 1952 are hereby repealed, that is to say—
(a) in section 3 (1) the definition of “the Merchant Shipping Acts”;
(b) in section 28 (1) the words “the preceding provisions of”;
(c) in section 32 (2) the words from “and shall be based” to the end of the subsection;
(d) in the Second Schedule, paragraphs 2 to 4.
Short title, collective citation and commencement.
21.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Merchant Shipping Act, 1966, and the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1962, and this Act may be cited together as the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1966.
(2) This Act shall come into force on such day as the Government appoints by order.