Statutory Rules
1977 No. 186
REGULATIONS UNDER THE POLLUTION OF THE SEA BY OIL ACT 1960.*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Pollution of the Sea by Oil Act 1960.
Dated this thirteenth day of October, 1977.
JOHN R. KERR
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
PETER NIXON
Minister of State for Transport.
Amendments of the Pollution of the Sea by Oil Regulations†
Commencement.
1. These Regulations shall come into operation on 20 January 1979.
Interpretation.
2. Regulation 3 of the Pollution of the Sea by Oil Regulations is amended by omitting the definition of “ heavy diesel oil ”.
Prevention of the entry of oil into the bilges of a ship.
3. Regulation 5 of the Pollution of the Sea by Oil Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1) the words “ as fuel ”;
(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (2) the words “ fuel oil or heavy diesel ” (wherever occurring);
(c) by omitting sub-regulation (3) and substituting the following sub-regulation:—
“ (3) In any proceedings for an offence against this regulation in relation to a ship, it is a defence if the defendant proves that the ship was, at the time of the alleged offence, so fitted as to prevent oil in the bilges of the ship being discharged into the sea in contravention of the Act.”; and
(d) by omitting sub-regulation (5).
* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 19 October 1977.
† Statutory Rules 1962, No. 90 as amended by Statutory Rules 1964, No. 108; 1965, No. 183; 1967, No. 82; 1974, No. 85; 1975, No. 116; and 1977, No. 185.