s 9 Concurrent liabilities of owners and others
9. Where, as a result of any discharge or escape of bunker oil from a ship or as a result of any relevant threat of contamination, the owner of the ship incurs a liability under section 3 and any other person incurs a liability, otherwise than under that section, for any such damage or cost mentioned in subsection (1) or (2) of that section, then, if —(a) the owner has been found, in proceedings under section 7, to be entitled to limit the owner’s liability to any amount and has paid into Court or to the Authority a sum not less than that amount; and (b) the other person is entitled to limit the person’s liability in connection with the ship by virtue of section 136 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, no proceedings shall be taken against the other person in respect of the person’s liability, and if any such proceedings were commenced before the owner paid the sum into Court or to the Authority, no further steps shall be taken in the proceedings except in relation to costs.