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Section 6 Enforcement of Conventions.

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(1)

The Minister and the Secretary of State may jointly by order declare—

(a)

that any procedure which has been developed for the effective application of the London Conven,tion, the Oslo Convention or any designated Convention and is specified in the order is an accepted procedure as between Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the Government of any Convention State so specified ; and

(b)

that the powers conferred by subsections (7) to (10) of section 5 above may be exercised, for the purpose of the enforcement of that procedure outside United Kingdom waters—

(i)

in relation to a British ship or hovercraft, by a person of any specified class appointed to enforce it by the Government of that State, and

(ii)

in relation to a ship or hovercraft of that State, by a British enforcement officer.

(2)

A person belonging to a class specified in an order under this section is referred to in this Act as a " foreign enforcement officer ", hurt any reference to a foreign enforcement officer in the following provisions of this Act shall be construed, in relation to any person of a class so specified, as applying to him only for the purposes of the procedure specified in the order as the procedure for whose enforcement his Government appointed him.