Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act, 1952

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PART II.

Safety of Life at Sea.

Construction and Equipment.

Construction rules.

10.—(1) The Minister may make rules (in this Act referred to as construction rules) prescribing the requirements that the hull, equipments and machinery of passenger steamers registered in the State shall comply with.

(2) The construction rules shall include such requirements as appear to the Minister to implement the provisions of the Safety Convention prescribing the requirements that the hull, equipments and machinery of passenger steamers shall comply with, except so far as those provisions are implemented by the rules for life-saving appliances, the radio rules, the rules for direction-finders or the collision regulations.

(3) The powers conferred on the Minister by this section shall be in addition to the powers conferred by any other enactment enabling him to prescribe the requirements that passenger steamers shall comply with.