S.I. No. 133/1969 - Merchant Shipping (International Convention on Load Lines) (Convention Countries) Order, 1969.

1. This Order may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (International Convention on Load Lines) (Convention Countries) Order, 1969.

2. It is hereby declared that the Governments of the countries specified in the Schedule to this Order have accepted or acceded to the Convention of 1966.

SCHEDULE.

Australia

Nigeria

Belgium

Norway

Bulgaria

Pakistan

China

Panama

Congo (Kinshasa)

Peru

Cuba

Philippines

Denmark

Somalia

Federal Republic of Germany

South Africa

Spain

Finland

Sweden

France

Switzerland

Ghana

Trinidad and Tobago

Greece

India

Tunisia

Israel

Turkey

Italy

Union of Soviet Socialist

Japan

Republics

Kuwait

United Arab Republic

Liberia

Malagasy Republic

Unite Kingdom

Maldive Islands

United States of America

Mauritania

Viet-Nam (South)

Morocco

Yugoslavia

Netherlands

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government, this 8th day of July, 1969.

SEÁN Ó LOINSIGH,

Taoiseach.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order declares that the Governments of the countries specified in the Schedule to the Order have accepted or acceded to the International Convention on Load Lines, 1966.

S.I. No. 133 of 1969.

MERCHANT SHIPPING (INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON LOAD LINES) (CONVENTION COUNTRIES) ORDER, 1969.

The Government, being satisfied that the Governments of the countries specified in the Schedule to this Order has accepted or acceded to the Convention of 1966 and in exercise of the powers conferred on them by

section 30

(1) of the

Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act, 1968

(No. 17 of 1968), hereby make the following order:—