Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) Act 1971 (Guernsey) Order 1981
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1981/224 |
1981 No. 224
MERCHANT SHIPPING
The Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) Act 1971 (Guernsey) Order 198118thFebruary 1981
26thFebruary 1981
20thMarch 1981
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 18th day of February 1981
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by section 18(1) of the Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) Act 1971(a) and section 738(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894(b), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—
1. This Order may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) Act 1971 (Guernsey) Order 1981 and shall come into operation on 20th March 1981.
2. In this Order and the Schedule hereto, the expression "Guernsey" means the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the territorial waters adjacent thereto and the expression "Act of 1979" means the Merchant Shipping Act 1979(c).
3. The provisions of the Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) Act 1971, excluding any amendments to that Act made by the provisions of the Act of 1979 except the amendments made by sections 38 and 43 of, and Part III of Schedule 6 to, that Act, shall extend to Guernsey subject to the exceptions, modifications and adaptations specified in Part I of the Schedule to this Order and, as respects the amendments made by section 38, to the provisions in Part II of the Schedule relating to the coming into force of those amendments.
4. The Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) Act 1971 (Guernsey) Order 1975(d) is hereby revoked.
N. E. Leigh, Clerk of the Privy Council.
(a) 1971 c. 59; the amendments to the Act relevant to this Order are the insertion of section 8A by section 9 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1974 (c. 43), the amendments to section 4 made by section 38(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 (c. 39), the insertion of section 5(2A) by section 38(2) of that Act, the amendments to sections 10(2), 11(1) and 14(2) by section 38(3) of that Act, the amendment to section 10(7) by section 43 of, and Part III of Schedule 6 to, that Act and the reference to section 18(1) in the declaration in section 38(5) of that Act.
(b) 1894 c. 60.
(c) 1979 c. 39.
(d) S.I. 1975/2185.
Article 3
SCHEDULE
PART I
EXCEPTIONS, MODIFICATIONS AND ADAPTATIONS IN THE EXTENSION OF THE MERCHANT SHIPPING (OIL POLLUTION) ACT 1971 TO GUERNSEY
1. Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to the Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) Act 1971 or to any other enactment shall be to that enactment as it has effect in Guernsey.
2. Unless the context otherwise requires, for any reference to the United Kingdom there shall be substituted a reference to Guernsey.
3. Section 1(5) shall be omitted.
4. In section 4(2) for paragraph (d) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—
"(d) if the tonnage of the ship cannot be ascertained in accordance with the preceding...
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