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Issue of load line certificates.
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7.—(1) Where a ship to which this Act applies, being a registered ship, has been surveyed and marked in accordance with the load line rules, the appropriate certificate shall be issued to the owner of the ship on his application.
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(2) For the purposes of this section the appropriate certificate—
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(a) in the case of an existing ship of not less than one hundred and fifty tons gross tonnage, and in the case of a new ship of not less than twenty-four metres in length, is a certificate which shall be called and is in this Act referred to as an International Load Line Certificate (1966), and
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(b) in the case of any other ship, is a certificate which shall be called and is in this Act referred to as an Irish load line certificate.
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(3) Subject to the next following subsection, any certificate required by subsection (1) of this section to be issued—
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(a) shall be issued by the Minister or by a person authorised in that behalf by the Minister, and
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(b) shall be in such form, and shall be issued in such manner, as may be prescribed by the load line rules.
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(4) The Minister may request the Government of a Contracting State other than the State to issue an International Load Line Certificate (1966) in respect of any ship to which this Act applies which is a registered ship and falling within subsection (2) (a) of this section; and the following provisions of this Act shall have effect in relation to such a certificate so issued, which contains a statement that it has been issued at the request of the Minister, as they have effect in relation to an International Load Line Certificate (1966) issued by the Minister.
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