Section 45 Amendments of enactments.

It is hereby declared that the reference to pipe-lines under the high seas in section 8(1) of the M1Continental Shelf Act 1964 (which among other things relate to the punishment of persons who damage such pipe-lines) includes pipe-lines under the territorial sea adjacent to the United Kingdom.

In section 23 of the M2Prevention of Oil Pollution Act 1971 (which among other things authorises the Secretary of State to exempt vessels from provisions of that Act) the words “any vessels or classes of vessels” shall be omitted and at the end of the section there shall be inserted the words

“—

(a)

any vessels or classes of vessels;

(b)

any discharge of, or of a mixture containing, crude oil produced as a result of operations for the exploration of the sea-bed and subsoil or the exploitation of their natural resources in a case where the discharge occurs in the course of such operations or is from a pipe-line or a place on land.”

Nothing in F1Part II of the M3Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 shall apply to anything done—