Merchant Shipping Act, 1966
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Transitional provisions and repeals. |
20.—(1) Nothing in section 6 of this Act or section 31 (1) of the Act of 1952 shall prohibit a ship from proceeding to sea without such a certificate as is required, or is equivalent to one required, under the said section 6, until the expiry of two years from the commencement of this Act. | |
(2) Nothing in section 16 (a) of this Act or section 26 (1) (b) (ii) or section 31 (1) of the Act of 1952 shall prohibit a ship of less than five hundred tons gross tonnage from proceeding to sea without such a certificate as is required, or is equivalent to one required, under the said section 26 (1) (b) (ii) until the expiry of one year from the commencement of this Act. | ||
(3) The Minister may by regulations provide that for such purposes, for such a period and subject to such conditions as may be specified by or under the regulations— | ||
(a) any country to which the Safety Convention applies shall be treated for the purposes of this Act as if it were a country to which the Convention applies; and | ||
(b) any certificate which immediately before the commencement of this Act was an accepted Safety Convention certificate within the meaning of the Act of 1952 as originally enacted may be treated as if it were an accepted Safety Convention certificate within the meaning of that Act as amended by this Act. | ||
(4) The following provisions of the Act of 1952 are hereby repealed, that is to say— | ||
(a) in section 3 (1) the definition of “the Merchant Shipping Acts”; | ||
(b) in section 28 (1) the words “the preceding provisions of”; | ||
(c) in section 32 (2) the words from “and shall be based” to the end of the subsection; | ||
(d) in the Second Schedule, paragraphs 2 to 4. |