Statutory Instrument 2000 No. 483

The Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Oil Pollution) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

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     4. In regulation 16(3)(b), for "Paragraph (2)(b)" [4] there shall be substituted "Paragraph (2)(a) and (b)(i)".

     5. After regulation 29 there shall be inserted the following Part:

" PART VA
INTACT STABILITY OF OIL TANKERS OF 5,000 TONS DEADWEIGHT AND ABOVE
     29A  - (1) This regulation shall apply to every oil tanker of 5,000 tons deadweight and above:


(a) for which the building contract was placed on or after 1st February 1999;

(b) in the absence of a building contract, the keel of which was laid, or which was at a similar stage of construction, on or after 1st August 1999;

(c) the delivery of which is on or after 1st February 2002; or

(d) which has undergone a major conversion:


(i) for which the contract was placed after 1st February 1999;

(ii) in the absence of a contract, the construction work of which was begun after 1st August 1999; or

(iii) which is completed after 1st Februray 2002.



    (2) Every oil tanker to which this regulation applies shall comply with the intact stability criteria specified in Schedule 5A in Merchant Shipping Notice No. 1643/MARPOL 1 (Amended)[5].".

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions.


Keith Hill
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

25th February 2000

[2] S.I. 1996/282.back

[3] S.I. 1996/2154, amended by S.I. 1997/1910.back

[4] The reference to paragraph (2)(b) was substituted by S.I. 1997/1910, regulation 6.back

[5] Relevant amendment is Merchant Shipping Notice No. 1643/MARPOL 1 (Amendment No. 1).back