S.I. No. 320/1983 - Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) (Countries of Acceptance) Order, 1983.

1. This Order may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) (Counties of Acceptance) Order, 1983.

2. It is hereby declared that the Government of each of the countries specified in the Schedule to this Order has accepted the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea signed in London on behalf of the Government on the 1st day of November, 1974.

SCHEDULE

Argentina

Fiji

Australia

Finland

Bahamas

France

Bangladesh

Gabon

Barbados

German Democratic Republic

Belgium

Ghana

Brazil

Greece

Canada

Guatemala

Cape Verde

Guinea

Chile

Hungary

China

Iceland

Columbia

India

Czechoslovakia

Indonesia

Denmark

Israel

Dominican Republic

Italy

Egypt

Japan

Equador

Korea

Federal Republic of Germany

Kuwait

Liberia

Sweden

Libya

Switzerland

Maldives

Tonga

Mexico

Trinidad and Tobago

Monaco

Tunisia

Netherlands

Turkey

Nigeria

Ukranian Soviet Socialist

Norway

Republic

Panama

Union of Soviet Socialist

Papua New Guinea

Republics

Peru

United Kingdom

Philippines

United States of America

Qatar

Uruguay

Romania

Vanuatu

Singapore

Venezuela

South Africa

Yemen Arab Republic

Spain

Yugoslavia

Sri Lanka

GIVEN under my Offical Seal, this 18th day of October, 1983.

JAMES MITCHELL,

Minister for Transport.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order declares that the Governments of the countries specified in the Schedule thereto have accepted the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974.

S.I. No. 320 of 1983.

MERCHANT SHIPPING (SAFETY CONVENTION) (COUNTRIES OF ACCEPTANCE) ORDER, 1983.

I, JAMES MITCHELL, Minister for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 4

of the

Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act, 1952

(No. 29 of 1952), as amended by

section 2

of the

Merchant Shipping Act, 1966

(No. 20 of 1966), the Transport, Fuel and Power (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1959 (

S.I. No. 125 of 1959

), and the Tourism and Transport (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order, 1980 (

S.I. No. 11 of 1980

) hereby order as follows:—