Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1949

3 (1) The Minister may by regulations provide—

(a) that any country to which the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1929, applies shall, for such purposes, for such a period and subject to such conditions as may be specified by or under the regulations, be treated for the purposes of this Act as if it were a country to which the Safety Convention applies; and

(b) that any certificate purporting to have been issued in accordance with the said Convention of 1929 and complying with such of the regulations made under subsection (2) of section sixteen of the Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932, as are applicable in the circumstances may, for such purposes, for such a period and subject to such conditions as may be specified by or under the regulations, be treated as if it were an accepted Safety Convention certificate within the meaning of this Act.

(2) Without prejudice to any general provision of this Schedule regarding the validity of regulations made under any Act repealed by this Act, regulations made under subsection (2) of section sixteen of the said Act of 1932 shall continue in force so far as they are required for the purposes of this paragraph.