Section 34 Short title and commencement.

This Act may be cited as the Prevention of Oil Pollution Act 1971.

This Act shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order appoint; but the day so appointed shall not be earlier than the day or, if more than one, the latest day, appointed under section 12(3) of the M1Oil in Navigable Waters Act 1971 for the coming into force of the provisions of that Act.