S.I. No. 272/1985 - Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) (Countries of Acceptance) Order, 1985.

1. This Order may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) (Countries of Acceptance) Order, 1985.

2. The Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) (Countries of Acceptance) Order, 1983 (

S.I. No. 320 of 1983

), is hereby revoked.

3. 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

Finland

Algeria

France

Australia

Gabon

Bahamas

German Democratic Republic

Bangladesh

Ghana

Barbados

Greece

Belgium

Guatemala

Brazil

Guinea

Bulgaria

Hungary

Cameroon

Iceland

Canada

India

Cape Verde

Indonesia

Chile

Israel

China

Italy

Columbia

Jamaica

Czechoslovakia

Japan

Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea

Kuwait

Denmark

Lebanon

Djibouti

Liberia

Domican Republic

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Ecquador

Malaysia

Egypt

Maldives

Federal Republic of Germany

Mexico

Fiji

Netherlands

Nigeria

Switzerland

Norway

Thailand

Pakistan

The Oman

Panama

Tonga

Papua New Guinea

Trinidad and Tobago

Peru

Tunisia

Philippines

Turkey

Poland

Ukranian Soviet Socialist

Portugal

Republic

Qatar

Union of Soviet Socialist

Republic of Korea

Republic

Romania

United Arab Emirates

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

United Kingdom

Saudi Arabia

United States of America

Sigapore

Uruguay

South Africa

Vanuatu

Spain

Venezuela

Sri Lanka

Yemen

Sweden

Yugoslavia

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 2nd day of September, 1985.

JAMES MITCHELL,

Minister for Communications.

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. It replaces the Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) (Countries of Acceptance) Order, 1983 (

S.I. No. 320 of 1983

) so as to give an updated list of those countries that have accepted the Convention.

The principal effect of the declaration is that certain Convention certificates issued by the Governments of the countries listed will be regarded as having the same force in the State as certificates issued by the State.

S.I. No. 272 of 1985.

MERCHANT SHIPPING (SAFETY CONVENTION) (COUNTRIES OF ACCEPTANCE) ORDER, 1985.

I, JAMES MITCHELL, Minister for Communications, 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), and the

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act, 1983

(No. 40 of 1983), hereby order as follows:—