Paragraph 4

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Deposit from a vessel or marine structure of any oil or mixture containing oil in such manner or in such circumstances as to constitute a discharge—

(a)

of a kind to which section 3 of the Prevention of Oil Pollution Act 1971 applies, or

(b)

of a kind for the time being regulated under section 20 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979.