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Transport Operations (Marine Pollution) Act 1995
sec.30Shipboard oil pollution emergency plan
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### sec.30 Shipboard oil pollution emergency plan
If a ship does not have on board a shipboard oil pollution emergency plan, the ship’s owner and master each commit an offence.
Maximum penalty—850 penalty units.
If a corporation commits an offence against this provision, an executive officer of the corporation may be taken, under section 121 , to have also committed the offence.
In this section—
ship means a ship—
more than 24m in length overall if the ship is carrying—
oil as cargo; or
a vehicle that is carrying more than 400L of oil as cargo; or
otherwise, more than 35m in length overall.
s 30 amd 1995 No. 50 s 3 sch ; 2001 No. 79 s 47
ins 2013 No. 51 s 229 sch 1
(sec.30-ssec.1) If a ship does not have on board a shipboard oil pollution emergency plan, the ship’s owner and master each commit an offence. Maximum penalty—850 penalty units. If a corporation commits an offence against this provision, an executive officer of the corporation may be taken, under section 121 , to have also committed the offence.
(sec.30-ssec.2) In this section— ship means a ship— more than 24m in length overall if the ship is carrying— oil as cargo; or a vehicle that is carrying more than 400L of oil as cargo; or otherwise, more than 35m in length overall.
- (a) more than 24m in length overall if the ship is carrying— (i) oil as cargo; or (ii) a vehicle that is carrying more than 400L of oil as cargo; or
- (i) oil as cargo; or
- (ii) a vehicle that is carrying more than 400L of oil as cargo; or
- (b) otherwise, more than 35m in length overall.
- (i) oil as cargo; or
- (ii) a vehicle that is carrying more than 400L of oil as cargo; or