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Version date: 1 November 2006 - onwards
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First Schedule Enforcement Powers in Respect of Ships

Section 35.

Preliminary

1.

(1) In this Schedule -

"an enforcement officer" means - (a) a member of the Garda Síochána, (b) an officer of customs and excise, (c) a member of the Naval Service of the Defence Forces not below the rank of petty officer, and (d) any other person of a description specified in an order made for the purposes of this Schedule by the Minister;

"the ship" means the ship in relation to which the powers conferred by this Schedule are exercised.

(2) An order under this Schedule (including an order made under this subparagraph) may be amended or revoked by the Minister.

(3) Every order made under this Schedule shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the order is passed by either such House within the next 21 days on which that House has sat after the order is laid before it, the order shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.