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Merchant Shipping (Salvage and Wreck) Act, 1993 (No. 34 of 1993).

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Ireland
Seafarers
1993-12-23
National
Law, Act

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An Act to give effect to the international convention on salvage done at London on the twenty-eighth day of April, 1989, by amending and extending the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1992, to further amend and extend those Acts by otherwise amending the law relating to salvage and by amending, in accordance with the exigencies of the common good, the law relating to vessels in distress and the law relating to wreck, to amend and extend certain provisions of the Harbours Act, 1946 , to provide for seizure and detention of property for use in certain criminal proceedings, to provide for fines and penalties under sections 729 and 730 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, in lieu of the fine provided for in each of those sections, to provide for the making of regulations relating to the burial of human remains at sea and to provide for other matters connected with the matters aforesaid

Repeals the following:
- Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, Part IX (sections 510 to 571).
- Merchant Shipping Act, 1906, Section 72.
- Maritime Conventions Act, 1911, sections 6 and 7.
- Merchant Shipping (Salvage) Act, 1916, the whole Act.
- Consular Conventions Act, 1954, Subsection (2) of section 12.
- Defence Act, 1954, Sections 315 and 316.

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