The Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Oil Pollution) (Amendment) Regulations 1993

2.—(1) For paragraph (2) of regulation 12 there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(2) Subject to paragraph (3) of this regulation, a ship to which this regulation applies shall not discharge oil or oily mixture into any part of the sea unless all the following conditions are satisfied—

(a)the ship is proceeding on a voyage;

(b)the ship is not within a special area;

(c)the oil content of the effluent does not exceed 15 ppm; and

(d)the ship has in operation equipment as required by regulation 14.”.

(2) Paragraph (3) of regulation 12 shall be omitted, and the following new paragraph (3) shall be substituted for it—

“(3) In the case of a ship referred to in paragraph (7) of regulation 14 (that is to say, a ship delivered before 6th July 1993) which by virtue of that paragraph is for the time being not required to be fitted and is not in fact fitted with the equipment with which, but for that paragraph, it would be required by paragraph (1), (2) or (3) of that regulation to be fitted, paragraph (2) of this regulation shall not apply until—

(a)6th July 1998; or

(b)the date on which the vessel is so fitted;

whichever is the earlier.Even so, until that date (that is to say, the earlier of the two said dates) the ship shall not discharge oil or oily mixture into the sea unless all the following conditions are satisfied—

(i)the ship is not within a special area;

(ii)the ship is more than 12 miles from the nearest land;

(iii)the ship is proceeding on a voyage;

(iv)the oil content of the effluent is less than 100 ppm; and

(v)the ship has in operation oily-water separating equipment of a design which is approved as being in accordance with the specification set out in Schedule 3 hereto.”.