Merchant Shipping (Safe Manning Document) Regulations, 1994

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 347/1994
• Year: 1994

S.I. No. 347 of 1994.
MERCHANT SHIPPING (SAFE MANNING DOCUMENT) REGULATIONS, 1994.
I, DAVID ANDREWS, Minister for the Marine, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 11 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1947 (No. 46 of 1947), as amended by the Merchant Shipping Act, 1947 (Section 11) (Amendment) Order, 1994 ( S.I. No. 346 of 1994 ), and the Communications (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1987 ( S.I. No. 91 of 1987 ), hereby make the following Regulations:—
	1 Citation and Commencement.	1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Safe Manning Document) Regulations, 1994.
(2) These Regulations shall come into operation on the 15th day of November, 1994.
	2 Definitions.	2. In these Regulations:
"fishing vessel" means a vessel for the time being employed in sea fishing but does not include a vessel used otherwise than for profit;
"grt" means gross registered tonnage and the gross registered tonnage of a ship having alternative gross registered tonnages shall be taken to be the lower of those tonnages;
"Irish ship" has the same meaning as in section 9 of the Mercantile Marine Act, 1955 (No. 29 of 1955);
"Marine Notice" means a notice described as such, issued by the Minister;
"the Minister" means the Minister for the Marine;
"owner" in relation to a ship, includes:
(i) where the ship is chartered by demise, the demise charterer,
(ii) where the ship is managed by a ship management company, the manager.
"pleasure craft" means a vessel primarily used for sport or recreation;
"Safe Manning Document" means a document issued, in the case of an Irish ship, by the Minister and, in the case of any other ship, by or on behalf of the government of the State whose flag the ship is entitled to fly and, in either case, in force and complying with the requirements of the Schedule hereto.
	3 Application.	3. Subject to Regulation 4 of these Regulations, these Regulations apply to Irish ships of 500 grt or more grt which go to sea beyond the limits of smooth or partially smooth waters (within the meaning of the 14th Schedule to the Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances) Rules, 1993 (No. 380 of 1993)), and to other ships of 500 grt or more grt while they are within the State or the territorial seas thereof, other than fishing vessels and pleasure craft.
	4 Provision of Safe Manning Document.	4. (1) Upon application to the Minister in that behalf by the...