Pat Gallagher (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)

This amendment is the first of a batch of substantial amendments. It inserts a new Part 4 to update vessel safety regulation provisions. The new Part 4 has three sections, new sections 33 to 35, inclusive. The new section 33 updates and restates, for ease of reference, enforcement and administration, regulation-making sections 18, passenger boats; 19, fishing vessels; and 20, pleasure craft; and also section 27, fixed payment notices of the Merchant Shipping Act 1992 (No. 2), as substantially amended by the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) Act 2000 (No. 14). Subsection (3) of the new section 33 provides on standard lines for the continuance in force of existing regulations as if made under the relevant section of the 1992 Act as now being amended.