Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1933

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Ships not to proceed to sea without certificate.

46.—(1) No Saorstát Eireann ship, being an international load line ship shall proceed to sea unless there is in force in respect of the ship a Load Line Convention certificate.

(2) No Saorstát Eireann ship, being a local load line ship, shall proceed to sea unless there is in force in respect of the ship a Saorstát Eireann load line certificate.

(3) The master of every Saorstát Eireann load line ship shall produce to the officer of Customs, from whom a clearance or transire for the ship is demanded, the certificate which is required by the foregoing provisions of this section to be in force when the ship proceeds to sea, and a clearance or transire shall not be granted, and the ship may be detained, until that certificate is so produced.

(4) The master of every ship which proceeds or attempts to proceed to sea in contravention of this section shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.