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Statutory Instruments
2001 No. 1639
MARINE POLLUTION
The Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response and Cooperation Convention) (Amendment) Regulations 2001
Made
30th April 2001
Laid before Parliament
3rd May 2001
Coming into force
11th June 2001
The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by article 2 of the Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response and Cooperation Convention) Order 1997( 1 ), hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response and Cooperation Convention) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 11th June 2001.
Amendment of Regulations
2. For paragraph 4(c) in the Schedule to the Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response and Cooperation Convention) Regulations 1998( 2 ) there shall be substituted:
“ (c) the reference in paragraph 2 above to sums received by the authority shall be read as including a reference to sums received by any subsidiary of the authority which are shown in the statement of accounts there mentioned (and paragraph 3 above shall be construed accordingly). ” .
Signed by authority of the Secretary of Statefor the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Keith Hill
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
30th April 2001