Article 2

The Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution by Garbage) Order 1988^f1 shall be amended as follows.

In article 2(1), for the words “for the purpose of giving effect to Annex V to the Convention” there shall be substituted the following words—

• “for the purpose of giving effect to—

  1. (a)

     Annex V to the Convention; and

  2. (b)

     amendments thereto adopted by the Marine Environment Protection Committee of the International Maritime Organization—

     1. (i)

        at its 30th Session by Resolution MEPC 42(30); and

     2. (ii)

        at its 31st Session by Resolution MEPC 48(31).”.