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The Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response and Cooperation Convention) (Amendment) Regulations 2001

S.I. 2001/1639 · Made 30 April 2001

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This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.I. 1998/1056 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

MARINE POLLUTION

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 1997f1, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1997/2567.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment of Regulations
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

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.

2Amendment of Regulations

For paragraph 4(c) in the Schedule to the Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response and Cooperation Convention) Regulations 1998f1 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).”.

Signature

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

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend paragraph 4 in the Schedule to the Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response and Cooperation Convention) Regulations 1998 (“the 1998 Regulations”). They have been made in consequence of a defect in the 1998 Regulations, and are being issued free of charge to all known recipients of those Regulations. The Schedule to the 1998 Regulations provides for the meaning of “annual turnover”.