S.I. No. 307/1992 - Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) (Countries of Acceptance) Order, 1992.

1. This Order may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) (Countries of Acceptance) Order, 1992.

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

Algeria

Congo

Guatemala

Angola

Cote d'Ivoire

Guinea

Antigua and Barbuda

Croatia

Haiti

Argentina

Cuba

Honduras

Australia

Cyprus

Hungary

Austria

Czechoslovakia

Iceland

Bahamas

Democratic People's

India

Bahrain

Republic of Korea

Indonesia

Bangladesh

Denmark

Iraq

Barbados

Djibouti

Israel

Belgium

Dominican Republic

Italy

Belize

Ecuador

Jamaica

Benin

Egypt Estonia

Japan

Brazil

Ethopia

Jordon

Brunei Darussalam

Fiji

Kuwait

Bulgaria

Finland

Latvia

Cameroon

France

Lebanon

Canada

Gabon

Liberia

Cape Verde

Gambia

Libyan Arab

Chile

Germany

Jamahiriya

China

Ghana

Lithuania

Colombia

Greece

Luxembourg

Malaysia

Philipinnes

Switzerland

Maldives

Poland

Thailand

Malta

Portugal

Togo

Marshal Islands

Qatar

Tonga

Mauritius

Republic of Korea

Trinidad and Tobago

Mexico

Romania

Tunisia

Monaco

Russian Federation

Turkey

Morocco

Saint Vincent and the

Tuvalu

Myanmar

Grenadines

Ukraine

Netherlands

Saudi Arabia

United Arab Emirates

New Zealand

Seychelles

United Kingdom

Nigeria

Singapore

United States

Norway

South Africa

Uruquay

Oman

Spain

Vanuatu

Pakistan

Sudan

Venezuela

Panama

Sri Lanka

Viet Nam

Papua New Guinea

Suriname

Yemen

Peru

Sweden

Yugoslavia

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 22nd day of October, 1992.

MICHAEL WOODS,

Minister for the Marine.

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. 330 of 1983

) which listed the countries which had accepted the Convention at that time.

S.I. No. 307 of 1992.

MERCHANT SHIPPING (SAFETY CONVENTION) (COUNTRIES OF ACCEPTANCE) ORDER, 1992.

I, MICHAEL WOODS, Minister for the Marine, 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),

section 2

of the

Merchant Shipping Act, 1981

(No. 33 of 1981) and the Communications (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1987 (

S.I. No. 91 of 1987

), hereby order as follows