Explanatory note

This Order extends to the territories specified in Schedule 1, with the exceptions and modifications specified in Schedule 2, those provisions of the Prevention of Oil Pollution Act 1971 that enable measures to be taken to prevent, mitigate or eliminate grave and imminent danger to the coastline or related interests from pollution or threat of pollution of the sea by oil, following upon a maritime casualty. Such measures may include those permitted under the International Convention relating to Intervention on the High Seas in cases of Oil Pollution Casualties, opened for signature in Brussels on 29th November 1969 (Cmnd. 4403).