REGULATION
Regulation No. 361 26 March 2009REGULATION
amending Regulation No. 524/2008 on the Delimitation of Shipping Routes, Areas to be Avoided and Mandatory Reporting of Ships off the Southwest Coast of Iceland
Article 1
Article 4(3) shall read as follows:
It shall be avoided to navigate ships subject to this Regulation into delimited areas pursuant to paragraph 1. However, this shall not apply to ships calling at ports within the Selvogsbanki Area to be Avoided (Eastern Area to be Avoided), passenger ships during the period 1 May to 1 October and ships of up to 20,000 GT which neither carry dangerous goods nor noxious materials in bulk or in cargo tanks and are permitted to transit the inner route as provided for in Article 6(2) of this Regulation. Such ships are permitted to navigate within the Selvogsbanki Area south of latitude 63°45´N. When navigating such ships within the Selvogsbanki Area, navigating officers shall take utmost precaution and take special notice of weather and weather and sea state forecasts in on-shore wind conditions.
Article 2
After Article 6(1) the following new paragraph shall be inserted:
Passenger ships of unlimited size may navigate the inner route during the period from 1 May to 1 October.
Article 3
Point 2 of the comments under "Description of areas to be avoided" in part II of Annex I shall read as follows:
2. Ships calling at ports located within the Selvogsbanki Area (Eastern Area to be Avoided) may navigate inside the area. Passenger ships, during the period 1 May to 1 October, and ships of up to 20,000 GT which neither carry dangerous goods nor noxious materials in bulk or in cargo tanks and are permitted to transit the inner route as provided for in Article 6(2) of this Regulation, may transit the Selvogsbanki Area to be Avoided (Eastern Area to be Avoided) south of latitude 63°45´N.
Article 4
This Regulation, which is adopted in accordance with a permit provided for in Article 13 of Act No. 41/2003 on the Maritime Traffic Service, Article 12 of Act No. 132/1999 on Lighthouse Matters and Article 2 of Act No. 7/1975 on a Government Permission to Ratify on behalf of Iceland the Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972, as amended, and shall enter into force immediately for all those concerned to comply with.
Ministry of Communications, 26 March 2009.
Kristján L. Möller
Ragnhildur Hjaltadóttir