Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1949

1. Introductory Text

2. Construction and Equipment

   1. 1. Construction rules

   2. 2. Rules for life-saving appliances

   3. 3. Radio rules

   4. 4. Radio surveyors

   5. 5. Rules for direction-finders

   6. 6. Further provisions as to radio navigational aids

3. Certificates

   1. 7. Issue for passenger steamers of safety certificates and exemption certificates

   2. 8. Issue for cargo ships of safety-equipment certificates and exemption certificates

   3. 9. Issue for cargo ships of radio certificates and exemption certificates

   4. 10. Issue of general safety certificates, etc., on partial compliance with rules

   5. 11. Notice of alterations and additional surveys

   6. 12. Prohibition on proceeding to sea without appropriate certificates

   7. 13. Miscellaneous provisions as to surveys and certificates

4. Safety Convention Ships not registered in the United Kingdom

   1. 14. Certificates of Convention ships not registered in United Kingdom

   2. 15. Modified survey of passenger steamers holding Convention certificates

   3. 16. Miscellaneous privileges of ships holding Convention certificates

   4. 17. Further provisions as to the production of Convention certificates

5. Miscellaneous Provisions for furthering Safety of Life at Sea

   1. 18. Information about ship's stability

   2. 19. Openings in passenger steamers' hulls and watertight bulkheads

   3. 20. Amendment of s. 23 of Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932, relating to loading of passenger steamers

   4. 21. Signals of distress

   5. 22. Obligation to assist vessels, etc., in distress

   6. 23. Carriage of dangerous goods

   7. 24. Carriage of grain

   8. 25. Contribution towards a North Atlantic ice service

6. Supplemental

   1. 26. Definition of "passenger" and "passenger steamer"

   2. 27. Removing persons in case of danger

   3. 28. Power of Minister to exempt from safety requirements

   4. 29. Exemption of certain ships from certain provisions of this Act

   5. 30. Application to colonies etc.

   6. 31. Countries to which Safety Convention applies

   7. 32. Transitional provisions

   8. 33. Provision as to certain fees and fines under the Merchant Shipping Acts

   9. 34. Rules and regulations

   10. 35. Consequential amendments of Merchant Shipping Acts

   11. 36. Interpretation

   12. 37. Commencement, construction, citation and repeal

7. SCHEDULES

   1. FIRST SCHEDULE

      Transitional Provisions

      1. 1. Any rules or regulations made, or having effect as if...

      2. 2. (1) Any general safety certificate, short-voyage safety certificate, qualified safety...

      3. 3. (1) The Minister may by regulations provide—

      4. 4. Nothing in section seventeen of this Act shall require the...

   2. SECOND SCHEDULE

      Enactments Fixing the Amount of Fees

   3. THIRD SCHEDULE

      Enactments Repealed