{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-oil-pollution-preparedness-response-and-co-operation-convention-amendment-regulations-2015/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-oil-pollution-preparedness-response-and-co-operation-convention-amendment-regulations-2015/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/386",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response and Co-operation Convention) (Amendment) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-oil-pollution-preparedness-response-and-co-operation-convention-amendment-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 7",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 7(offences) of the 1998 Regulations is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph (1)—\n(a) omit “offshore installation or of an”; and\n(b) after “facility” insert “or any responsible person”.\n(3) After paragraph (2) insert—\n“(3) Any responsible person who without reasonable cause—\n(a) fails to comply with a duty under regulation 4(9); or\n(b) breaches the obligation in regulation 4(10),\nis guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding £5,000, or on conviction on indictment by a fine.\n(4) Any operator of an oil handling facility who, without reasonable cause, breaches the obligation in regulation 4(11) is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding £5,000, or on conviction on indictment by a fine.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/386/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:46:13.303423+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}