UK Offence Report

Offences made under the Her by section 18(1) of the Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) Act 1971

5 statutory instruments made under this Act create 25 criminal offences between them.

These are offences created by secondary legislation made under the Act — not the offences in the Act itself. An Act that creates a power to make regulations, and regulations that then create offences, is the ordinary route by which most of the criminal law is made, and it is the route this report follows.

Instruments made under it