The person in charge of a vessel may refuse boarding to a person who is under the influence of alcohol or drugs. They may be landed on shore. \u00a0A person in command or member of the crew is guilty of an offence if he is under the influence of alcohol or drugs while on duty to such an extent as to impair his ability to discharge his duties.<\/p>\n
A person on board ship may not consume alcohol or drugs in such a combination or quantity as to affect the safety of persons, to create a disturbance or serious nuisance on board a vessel or affect the safety of other persons using Irish waters.<\/p>\n
A person who engages in behaviour that is likely to cause serious offence or annoyance to a person on board is guilty of an offence.\u00a0 It is an offence to engage in threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour either by word or gesture with intent to cause a breach of the peace or being reckless as to whether a breach of the peace might be caused.<\/p>\n
It is an offence,, by an deliberate or reckless action, or by reason of being under the influence of drugs or alcohol or a combination, to puts at risk or endangers life security or seaworthiness of a vehicle, vessel or lives or safety of persons on board.<\/p>\n
The master of a passenger boat or a passenger ship or anyone unauthorised by him may give direction to passengers on board which in the circumstances are reasonable in relation to safety and security procedures on board.\u00a0 A passenger who fails to comply with the direction without reasonable cause is guilty of an offence.<\/p>\n
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Ship Standards & Survey The Merchant Shipping Acts make extensive provisions for standards in relation to passenger ships.\u00a0 Various international safety conventions have modernised and harmonised laws relating to the standards for passenger ships. The legislation has been updated from time to time accordingly. Every seagoing ship containing more than a certain size and passenger […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12078"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32647,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078\/revisions\/32647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}