Gibraltar Merchant Shipping (Safety, etc.) Act, 1993.

This Act sets the basic provisions aimed at governing and regulating the Gibraltar sea merchant shipping activities and related issues. The main objectives of this Act are the implementation of provision for the control, regulation and orderly development of merchant shipping in Gibraltar, for the proper qualification of persons employed in ships registered in Gibraltar, for the safety of such ships and their crews and passengers, for compliance with international obligations in respect thereof, to repeal the application to ships registered in Gibraltar of certain acts and acts of Parliament and for matters connected with and incidental to the foregoing.
The text is divided into 122 Sections, listed under IX main Parts, which titles are as follows: Preliminary provisions; Administration; Master and seamen; Safety; Hovercraft; Submersible apparatus; Carriage of passengers, their luggage and limitation of liability; Pollution; Miscellaneous provisions.
The Schedules is also part of this publication (List of International Conventions considered and respected by this Act: The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1960, as amended; The International Convention on Load Lines, 1966; The International Telecommunication Convention (Montreux), 1965, and the Radio Regulations 1968; The Convention on Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic, 1965; The International Convention and Amendments on Tonnage Measurement of Vessels 1969; The International Health Regulations (Geneva) 1969; The International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea 1972; The International Convention for Safe Containers 1972; The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea 1974, and the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto; The International Convention and Amendments relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea 1974 and the Protocol of 1976 relating thereto; The International Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims 1976 as amended from time to time; The International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers 1978; The International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage 1969 (CLC); The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 (MARPOL 73/78); The Inter-Governmental Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, 1972, as amended (London Dumping Convention) (LDC) (Gibraltar not now a Contracting State, although UK and all other UK Commonwealth countries are); International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention No. 7 Minimum Age (Sea) 1920; ILO Convention No. 8 Unemployment Indemnity (Ship-wreck) 1920; ILO Convention No. 22 Seamen’s Articles of Agreement 1926; ILO Convention No. 108 Seafarers’ Identity Documents 1958; ILO Convention No. 133Accommodation of Crews (Supplementary Provisions) 1970; ILO Convention No. 147 Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards) 1976; United Nations Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences (EIF 6 October 1983); International Law on Maritime Search and Rescue 1979; International Convention on the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation 1988 and Protocol; International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund 1971; International Convention Relating to Intervention on the High Seas in cases of Oil Pollution Casualties-Brussels 29 November 1969, EIF 6 May 1975, UK Ratification 12 January 1971; Protocol to the International Convention Relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Oil Pollution Casualties-London 2 November 1973 EIF 30 March 1982, UK Ratification 5 November 1979; Protocol to the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage 1969-London 19 November 1976, EIF 8 APRIL 1981, UK Ratification 31 January 1980; Special Trade Passenger Ships Agreement-London 6 October 1971, EIF 2 January 1974, UK Acceptance 16 August 1979, EIF 15 November 1979; Protocol on Space Requirements for Special Trade Passenger Ships-London 13 July 1973, EIF 2 June 1977, UK Acceptance 16 November 1979, EIF 16 February 1989; Convention on the International Maritime Satellite Organization (INMARSAT) as amended-London 3 September 1976, EIF 16 July 1979, UK Ratification 30 April 1979; Amendments to Convention on the International Maritime Satellite Organization (INMARSAT) 1985, UK Acceptance 12 May 1986; Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter as Amended-London, Mexico City, Moscow, Washington 29 December 1972, EIF 30 August 1975, UK Ratification 17 November 1975, EIF 17 December 1975.