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Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 4 Nov 1993

Vol. 435 No. 5

Merchant Shipping (Salvage and Wreck) Bill, 1993: Order for Second Stage.

Bill entitled an Act to give effect to International Convention on Salvage done at London on the twenty-eighth day of April, 1989, by amending and extending the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1984 to 1992, to further amend and extend those Acts by otherwise amending the law relating to salvage and by amending, in accordance with the exigencies of the common good, the law relating to vessels in distress and the law relating to wreck, to amend and extend certain provisions of the Harbours Act, 1946, to provide for seizure and detention of property for use in certain criminal proceedings, to provide for fines and penalties under sections 729 and 730 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, in lieu of the fine provided for in each of those sections, to provide for the making of regulations relating to the burial of human remains at sea and to provide for other matters connected with the matters aforesaid.

I move: "That Second Stage be taken now".

Question put and agreed to.
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