Notes and examples included in this Act do not form part of this Act.
Note : To assist the reader, many provisions of this Act contain bracketed notes in headings drawing attention to the provision of MARPOL that the provision of this Act gives effect to.
For the purposes of comparison, a number of provisions of this Act contain bracketed notes in headings drawing attention ("cf former Act") to equivalent or comparable (though not necessarily identical) provisions of the repealed Marine Pollution Act 1987 .