S.I. No. 264/1994 - Merchant Shipping (Certifications of Deck Officers) (Amendment) Regulations, 1994.

1. Except in the case of offshore installation supply vessels, column 3 is to be read subject to, and the meaning of (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) is to be found in paragraph 2 (1) (A) or 2 (1) (B) of, the special provisions set out in Part II of this Schedule.

2. In the case of offshore installation supply vessels column 3 is to be read subject to paragraph 3 of the special provisions set out in Part II of this Schedule.".

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 29th day of August, 1994.

DAVID ANDREWS,

Minister for the Marine.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These Regulations amend manning requirements laid down in the Merchant Shipping (Certification of Deck Officers) Regulations, 1988 (

S.I. No. 368 of 1988

).

The Regulations also permit vessels with an ice class notation to operate as far north as 60 degrees and within the entire Gulf of Finland.

S.I. No. 264 of 1994.

MERCHANT SHIPPING (CERTIFICATIONS OF DECK OFFICERS) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1994.

I, DAVID ANDREWS, Minister for the Marine, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

sections 3

and

8

of the

Merchant Shipping (Certification of Seamen) Act, 1979

(No. 37 of 1979), and the Communications (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1987 (

S.I. No. 91 of 1987

), hereby make the following Regulations