S.I. No. 179/1968:

MERCHANT SHIPPING (DANGEROUS GOODS) (AMENDMENT) RULES, 1968.

MERCHANT SHIPPING (DANGEROUS GOODS) (AMENDMENT) RULES, 1968.

I, ERSKINE H. CHILDERS, Minister for Transport and Power, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 38 of the Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act, 1952 (No. 29 of 1952), and the Transport, Fuel and Power (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1959 ( S.I. No. 125 of 1959 ), hereby make the following rules:

1. (1) These rules may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Dangerous Goods) (Amendment) Rules, 1968.

(2) The Merchant Shipping (Dangerous Goods) Rules, 1967, ( S.I. No. 105 of 1967 ), and these Rules may be cited together as the Merchant Shipping (Dangerous Goods) Rules, 1967 and 1968.

2. The Merchant Shipping (Dangerous Goods) Rules, 1967, shall be amended as follows:

(a) in Rule 10 (2) "owner or master of the ship" is hereby substituted for "master of the ship in writing signed by him"; and

(b) the following is hereby substituted for the Second Schedule--

" SECOND SCHEDULE

Explosives which may be taken on board Passenger Ships

Antifyre Percussion Caps

Battery Pockets

Cardox Safety Electric Fuseheads

Cartridges; aiming rifle, bolt, cable cutting, link, pistol, punch, radar echo, rim fire, rocket and shot gun

Cartridges, M.L., mortar

Cartridges S.A.; ball, piercing, separate and tracer

Cases, cartridge, capped

Cases for Turbo-Starter Cartridges (Empty) Primed

Delay Fuse Assembly (10 Seconds)

Electric Lighters for Igniter Cord

Eley Kynoch Percussion Cap Nos. 1A, 1B and 91

Excelsior Safety Electric Fuses

Explosive Motors

Explosive Rivets

Fire Extinguisher Actuators

Fireworks, Manufactured

Flame Detector Cords

Fog signals (including railway fog signals)

Fulminate of Silver

Fusehead Assemblies

Hydrox Igniter No. 1 Safety Electric Fuse

Igniter Cord Connectors

Igniters for Grenades

Igniters, safety

Kynoch Fog Signal Caps

Kynoch Percussion Cap Nos. 40, 41, 59, 81, 126, 135, 146, 148, 170, 172, 175, 176, 177, 178 and 182.

Kynoch Rail Car Fog Signals

M.O.C. Cartridges Types 1 and 4

M.O.C. Cartridge Cases (Empty), Fused or Capped

No. 41 Percussion Caps

Nobel's Electric Delay Action Fuses

Nobel's Safety Electric Fuses

Nobel's Safety Electric Delay Fuses

Norres Safety Electric Fuses

Plastic Core Safety Fuses

Primers for small arms

Safety Cartridge Cases (Empty), Capped

Safety Cartridge Cases (Empty), Primed Safety

Cartridges (Section 108)

Safety Firing Tubes No. 1

Safety Fuses Safety Electric Fuses

Safety Fuse O. in C. No. 1

Safety Instantaneous Fuses

Safety Squibs

Schermer Cattle Killer Cartridges

Small Calibre Incendiary Bullets

Small Calibre Tracer Bullets

Small arms ammunition

Special Safety Fuses

Squibs, Electric

Striker Pin Fuses Trip Fuses Tubes, Tracers for Q.F. Ammunition

Turbo-Starter Primers, Electrically Fired, 15 grain."

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 20th day of August, 1968.

ERSKINE H. CHILDERS,

Minister for Transport and Power.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The main effect of these Rules is to substitute a revised list of the types of explosives which, subject to certain conditions, may be taken on board passenger ships.