The Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution) (Amendment) Order 1998

• Citation: S.I. 1998/254
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution) (Amendment) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 17th March 1998.

Section 2 Amendment of 1987 Order

In the Merchant Shipping (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Order 1987 , article 5(1), after the words “under the said section 131” there shall be added the words “as if in subsection (3)(a) for “£250,000” there were substituted “£25,000””.

Section 3 Amendment of 1988 Order

(1) The Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution by Garbage) Order 1988 shall be amended as follows.

(2) In article 2(2), after sub-paragraph (c), there shall be added the following sub-paragraph:

(d) for detaining any ship in respect of which a contravention is suspected to have occurred and, in relation to such a ship, for applying section 284 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 with such modifications, if any, as are specified in the Regulations.

(3) In article 3(1), after the words “under the said section 131” there shall be added the words “as if in subsection (3)(a) for “£250,000” there were substituted “£25,000””.