# The Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) (Seychelles) Order 1975, Paragraph 2: Exceptions from liability under s. 1


The owner of a ship from which persistent oil has been discharged or has escaped shall not incur any liability under section 1 of this Act if he proves that the discharge or escape—
(a) resulted from an act of war, hostilities, civil war, insurrection or an exceptional, inevitable and irresistible natural phenomenon; or
(b) was due wholly to anything done or left undone by another person, not being a servant or agent of the owner, with intent to do damage; or
(c) was due wholly to the negligence or wrongful act of a government or other authority in exercising its function of maintaining lights or other navigational aids for the maintenance of which it was responsible.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/2172/schedule/1/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-oil-pollution-seychelles-order-1975/schedule-1/paragraph-2
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