S.I. No. 40/1995 - Merchant Shipping (Ro-Ro Passenger Ship Survivability) (Amendment) Rules, 1995.

S.I. No. 40 of 1995.

MERCHANT SHIPPING (RO-RO PASSENGER SHIP SURVIVABILITY) (AMENDMENT) RULES, 1995.

I, HUGH COVENEY, Minister for the Marine, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 10 (1) (as amended by section 29 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1992 (No. 2 of 1992) and applied by section 743 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894), of the Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act, 1952 (No. 29 of 1952), hereby make the following Rules:

1. These Rules may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Ro-Ro Passenger Ship Survivability) (Amendment) Rules, 1995.

2. The Merchant Shipping (Ro-Ro Passenger Ship Survivability) Rules, 1994 ( S.I. No. 251 of 1994 ), are hereby amended by the substitution for paragraph (2) of Rule 7 of the following paragraphs:

"(2) For the purpose of these Rules, any requirement to comply with a damage stability standard shall be satisfied by compliance with—

( a ) a relevant standard or code of practice of a national standards body or equivalent of any Member State or signatory State, or

( b ) any relevant international standard recognised for use in any Member State or signatory State, or

( c ) a relevant specification acknowledged for use as a standard by public authority of any Member State or signatory State,

Provided that the relevant standard, code of practice or specification provides, in use, equipment levels of safety, suitability and fitness for purpose.

(3) In this Rule "signatory State" means a signatory State to the Agreement on the European Economic Area done at Oporto on the 2nd day of May, 1992.".

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 14th day of February, 1995.

HUGH COVENEY,

Minister for Marine.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The purpose of this amendment is to extend the provisions of Section 7 of the Merchant Shipping (Ro-Ro Ferry Survivability) Rules, 1994 to Signatory States of the Agreement on the European Economic Area.