Statutory Instruments
2000 No. 483
MARINE POLLUTION
The Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Oil Pollution) (Amendment) Regulations 2000
Made
25th February 2000
Laid before Parliament
1st March 2000
Coming into force
1st April 2000
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by article 3 of the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Oil Pollution) Order 1983( 1 ) and article 2 of the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution) (Law of the Sea Convention) Order 1996( 2 ) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Oil Pollution) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 1st April 2000.
2. The Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Oil Pollution) Regulations 1996( 3 ) shall be amended as follows.
3. In regulation 16(1):
(a) for “the Black Sea area and the Antarctic area” there shall be substituted “the Black Sea area, the North West European waters area, and the Antarctic area”; and
(b) after sub-paragraph (c) there shall be inserted:
“ (cc) “the North West European waters area” means the North Sea and its approaches, the Irish Sea and its approaches, the Celtic Sea, the English Channel and its approaches and part of the North East Atlantic immediately to the west of Ireland, being the area bounded by lines joining the following points:
(i) 48° 27'N on the French coast
(ii) 48° 27'N; 6° 25'W
(iii) 49° 52'N; 7° 44'W
(iv) 50° 30'N; 12°W
(v) 56° 30'N; 12°W
(vi) 62°N; 3°W
(vii) 62°N on the Norwegian coast
(viii) 57° 44.8'N on the Danish and Swedish coasts. ” .
4. In regulation 16(3)(b), for “Paragraph (2)(b)” ( 4 ) there shall be substituted “Paragraph (2)(a) and (b)(i)”.
5. After regulation 29 there shall be inserted the following Part:
“ PART VA INTACT STABILITY OF OIL TANKERS OF 5,000 TONS DEADWEIGHT AND ABOVE
29A —(1) This regulation shall apply to every oil tanker of 5,000 tons deadweight and above:
(a) for which the building contract was placed on or after 1st February 1999;
(b) in the absence of a building contract, the keel of which was laid, or which was at a similar stage of construction, on or after 1st August 1999;
(c) the delivery of which is on or after 1st February 2002; or
(d) which has undergone a major conversion:
(i) for which the contract was placed after 1st February 1999;
(ii) in the absence of a contract, the construction work of which was begun after 1st August 1999; or
(iii) which is completed after 1st Februray 2002.
(2) Every oil tanker to which this regulation applies shall comply with the intact stability criteria specified in Schedule 5A in Merchant Shipping Notice No. 1643/ MARPOL 1 (Amended) ( 5 ) . ” .
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions.
Keith Hill
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
25th February 2000
S.I. 1983/1106 , amended by S.I. 1985/2002 , 1991/2885 and 1993/1580 . The provisions that can be made under the Order were extended by section 128 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (c. 21) and varied by section 7(6) and (7) of the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c. 28) .
S.I. 1996/282 .
The reference to paragraph (2)(b) was substituted by S.I. 1997/1910 , regulation 6.
Relevant amendment is Merchant Shipping Notice No. 1643/MARPOL 1 (Amendment No. 1).