Paragraph 3 The Offshore Petroleum Activities (Oil Pollution Prevention and Control) Regulations 2005I1

In regulation 3 (discharge permits) of the Offshore Petroleum Activities (Oil Pollution Prevention and Control) Regulations 2005 M1, for paragraph (2) substitute—

“(2)

The following are exempt from the requirement for a permit—

(a)

discharges regulated by—

(i)

the Offshore Chemicals Regulations 2002 M2; or

(ii)

the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution by Sewage and Garbage from Ships) Regulations 2008 M3; and

(b)

discharges of oil or oily mixtures regulated by regulation 33 of the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Oil Pollution) Regulations 2019 with the exception of any of the following discharges of oil or oily mixtures made from floating production, storage and offloading facilities or floating storage units through the production stream—

(i)

machinery space discharges; or

(ii)

discharges of contaminated sea water from operational purposes such as produced oil tank cleaning water, produced oil tank hydrostatic testing water or water from ballasting of a produced oil tank to carry out inspection by rafting.”.