LegalizeS.I. No. 508/2012 - Merchant Shipping (International Convention on Load Lines) (Convention Countries) Order 2012
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Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in
“Iris Oifigiúil” of 14th December, 2012.
The Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 30 of the Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act 1968 (No. 17 of 1968), hereby make the following order:
1.This Order may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (International Convention on Load Lines) (Convention Countries) Order 2012.
2.It is declared—
- (a) that the government of each of the countries specified in Schedule 1 has accepted or acceded to the International Convention on Load Lines 1966, and
- (b) that the said Convention extends to each of the territories specified in Schedule 2.
3.The Merchant Shipping (International Convention on Load Lines) (Convention Countries) Order 1986 ( S.I. No. 319 of 1986 ) is revoked.
SCHEDULE 1
Article 2
| Albania Antigua and Barbuda Austria Bahrain Belarus Benin Brunei Darussalam Cameroon Chile Comoros Cote d’Ivoire Cyprus Democratic Republic of the Congo Dominica Egypt Estonia Finland Gambia Ghana Guatemala Haiti Iceland Iran (Islamic Republic of) Italy Jordan Kiribati Lebanon Lithuania Malaysia Marshall Islands Mexico Montenegro Myanmar New Zealand Norway Palau Peru PortugalRepublic of Moldova Saint Kitts and Nevis Samoa Senegal Sierra Leone Slovenia South Africa Sudan Switzerland Togo Tunisia Tuvalu United Kingdom Uruguay Viet Nam | Algeria Argentina Azerbaijan Bangladesh Belgium Bolivia Bulgaria Canada China Congo Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Dominican Republic Equatorial Guinea Ethiopia France Georgia Greece Guinea Honduras India Ireland Jamaica Kazakhstan Kuwait Liberia Luxembourg Maldives Mauritania Monaco Morocco Namibia Nicaragua Oman Panama Philippines Qatar Romania Saint Lucia Sao Tome and Principe Serbia Singapore Solomon Islands Spain Suriname Syrian Arab Republic Tonga Turkey Ukraine United Republic of Tanzania Vanuatu Yemen | Angola Australia Bahamas Barbados Belize Brazil Cambodia Cape Verde Colombia Cook Islands Cuba Democratic People’s Republic of Kore aDjibouti Ecuador Eritrea Fiji Gabon Germany Grenada Guyana Hungary Indonesia Israel Japan Kenya Latvia Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Madagascar Malta Mauritius Mongolia Mozambique Netherlands Nigeria Pakistan Papua New Guinea Poland Republic of Korea Russian Federation Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saudi Arabia Seychelles Slovakia Somalia Sri Lanka Sweden Thailand Trinidad and Tobago Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates United States Venezuela Zambia |
SCHEDULE 2
Article 2
| Faroe Islands Hong Kong SAR, China Macau SAR, China |
GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government,
11 December 2012.
ENDA KENNY,
Taoiseach.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note does not form part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation)
This Order declares that the Governments of the countries specified in the Order have accepted or acceded to the International Convention on Load Lines 1966 and that the Convention extends to particular territories. The effect of the Order is to bring the list of countries and territories up to date. It also revokes the previous Statutory Instrument, the Merchant Shipping (International Convention on Load Lines) (Convention Countries) Order 1986 ( S.I. No. 319 of 1986 ).
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