12. Obligation to hoist national colours.
Amendments (requiring commencement) by Sch. 1 to the Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Act 2014 (No. 43), published 25 December 2014.
(1) The proper national colours shall be hoisted on an Irish ship -
(a) on a signal being made to her by a ship of the Naval Service of the Defence Forces under the command of a commissioned officer of that Service, and
(b) on entering or leaving a port outside the State, and
(c) if the ship is of fifty tons gross tonnage or upwards, on entering or leaving a port in the State.
(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to a fishing boat duly entered in the fishing boat register and lettered and numbered in accordance with Part IV of the Act of 1894.
(3) Where there is a contravention of this section the master of the ship concerned shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on summary conviction thereof, to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.