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Merchant Shipping (Registration of Foreign Vessels) Amendment Act 2015

NIUE

MERCHANT SHIPPING (REGISTRATION OF FOREIGN VESSELS) AMENDMENT ACT 2015

No. 331

Contents

1 Title
2 Commencement
3 Principal Act amended
4 Section 47 amended (International maritime conventions)
5 Section 48 amended (Regulations)
6 Act binds the Government

An Act to provide for the implementation of the Nairobi International Convention on the Removal of Wrecks 2007.

The Assembly enacts as follows -

1. Title

This Act is the Niue Merchant Shipping (Registration of Foreign Vessels) Amendment Act 2015.

2. Commencement

This Act comes into force on the day after the date on which it becomes law in accordance with Article 34 of the Constitution.

3. Principal Act

This Act amends the Merchant Shipping (Registration of Foreign Vessels) Act 2012 (the principal Act).

4. Section 47 amended (International maritime conventions)

After section 47(1)(v), insert:

"(v) Nairobi International Convention on the Removal of Wrecks 2007."

5. Section 48 amended (Regulations)

In section 48, insert as subsection (2):

"(2) Regulations made under this section may, to the extent required by the convention to which the regulations relate, prescribe offences and penalties (other than imprisonment) in respect of the contravention of or non-compliance, with, the regulations."

6. Act binds the Government

This Act binds the Government.

I, Togiavalu Pihigia, Speaker of the Niue Assembly, certify that the requirements of Article 34 of the Niue Constitution have been complied with.

SIGNED AND SEALED at the Assembly Chambers this 1st day of April 2015.

Speaker of the Niue Assembly

COUNTERSIGNED in the presence of the Speaker

Clerk of the Niue Assembly

This Act is administered by the Department of Transport.

This Act was passed by the Niue Assembly on the 25th day of March 2015.