The Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution) (Law of the Sea Convention) Order 1996
UK Statutory Instrument 1996 No. 282 — creates 2 criminal offences.
- Made
- 14 February 1996
- In force from
- 28 February 1996
- Extent
- Not stated
- Subject
- Health and safety, environment, waste and fisheries
- Made under
- Parliament in accordance with section 129(3) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
This Order enables regulations to be made implementing provisions in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982 (Cmnd. 8941) relating to pollution of the sea by ships. It enables regulations to be made relating to the protection and preservation of the marine environment from pollution from ships caused beyond the territorial sea of the United Kingdom. Such regulations could, for example, extend the effect of regulations which apply to ships in the territorial sea of the United Kingdom to ships in other waters within which the United Kingdom may exercise jurisdiction over pollution from ships. Regulations may also be made to specify the extent of the United Kingdom’s jurisdiction in this regard.
Offences created by this instrument
- Such regulations may in particular include provision– a with respect to the approval of documents and the carrying out… article 2(2) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- c that specified contraventions of the regulations shall be offences punishable on summary conviction by a fine not… article 2(2)(c) · Status not determined · Strict liability
What Parliament said about it
Contributions, debates and written statements mentioning this instrument by name. Parliamentary material is reused under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.
- Draft Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) and Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution) (Law of the Sea Convention) Amendment Order 2022
Commons · General Committees · 14 June 2022 · The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (Robert Courts)
I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) and Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution) (Law of the Sea Convention) Amendment Order 2022. It is an honour to serve under your chairmanship this afternoon, Ms Rees. Hon. Members will be glad to know that the purpose of the order is to give the Government the powers they will need to apply the pollution prevention requirements in the international convention on standards of training, certification and watchkeeping for seafarers—which I will refer to as the STCW convention for brevity—to…
- Draft Merchant Shipping (Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping) Regulations 2022
Commons · General Committees · 30 November 2022 · The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (Mr Richard Holden)
I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Merchant Shipping (Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping) Regulations 2022. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Vickers. The purpose of the statutory instrument is to implement into UK law important amendments to the 1978 international convention on the standards of training, certification and watchkeeping for seafarers, to make further provision for the approval of training providers, including powers to remove that approval, and to make provision to allow the Government to charge for those…
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