New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

MARINE POLLUTION ACT 1987

- As at 1 September 2014 
- Act 299 of 1987 

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1 - PRELIMINARY

   1.      Name of Act
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Definitions
   4.      Act to bind Crown
   5.      Saving of other laws
   5A.     Ports and Maritime Administration Act 1995
   6.      Delegation

   PART 2 - POLLUTION BY OIL

           Division 1 - Discharge of oil or oily mixture

   7.      Interpretation
   8.      Prohibition of discharge of oil or oily mixtures into State waters
   8A.     Persons causing a discharge of oil or oily mixtures into State waters
   9.      Oil residues
   10.     Duty to report certain incidents involving oil or an oily mixture
   11.     Oil record book
   12.     False entries in oil record book
   13.     Oil record book to be retained

           Division 2 - Insurance

   13A.    Application of Division
   13B.    Ships must be insured against oil pollution

   PART 3 - POLLUTION BY NOXIOUS SUBSTANCES

   14.     Interpretation
   15.     Application of Act to mixture of oil and liquid substance
   16.     Categories of noxious liquid substances
   17.     Appendix III substances
   18.     Prohibition of discharge of substances into State waters
   18A.    Persons causing a discharge of substances into State waters
   19.     Certain liquid substances to be treated as oil
   20.     Duty to report certain incidents involving certain substances
   21.     Cargo record book
   22.     False entries in cargo record book
   23.     Cargo record book to be retained
   24.     Cleaning of tanks of ships

   PART 4 - POLLUTION RELATING TO TRANSFER OPERATIONS

   25.     Interpretation
   26.     Discharges to which Part applies
   27.     Prohibition of discharges to which Part applies
   28.     Duty to report discharge
   29.     Keeping of records relating to transfer etc
   30.     Joint and several liability--pipelines
   31.     Several liability--ships
   32.     Restrictions on transfer of oil etc at night

   PART 5 - SHIPS CARRYING OR USING OIL OR CARRYING NOXIOUS LIQUID SUBSTANCES

           Division 1 - Preliminary

   33.     Interpretation
   34.     Application of Part

           Division 2 - Ships carrying or using oil

   35.     Regulations to give effect to Regulations 13 to 19 (inclusive) of Annex I
   36.     Ship construction certificates
   37.     Alteration etc of construction of ships and cancellation of certificates
   38.     Ships to be surveyed periodically
   39.     Requirement for ship construction certificates

           Division 3 - Prevention of pollution from ships carrying noxious substances in bulk

   40.     Regulations to give effect to Regulation 13 of Annex II
   41.     Chemical tanker construction certificates
   42.     Alteration etc of construction of ships and cancellation of certificates
   43.     Ships to be surveyed periodically
   44.     Requirement for chemical tanker construction certificates

   PART 6 - MISCELLANEOUS

   45.     Reception facilities
   46.     Recovery of costs and expenses with respect to pollution by oil
   47.     Recovery of costs and expenses with respect to pollution by noxious liquid substances
   48.     Prevention of pollution
   49.     Service of notices
   50.     Non-compliance with notice
   51.     Recovery of damages
   52.     Additional provisions relating to recovery of costs and expenses
   52A.    Detention of ships believed to have discharged oil or noxious substances
   52B.    Security taken by the Minister
   52C.    Departure of ships under detention
   53.     Powers of inspectors etc
   54.     Time limit for prosecution
   55.     Proceedings for offences etc
   56.     Offences by corporations
   57.     Service of summonses
   58.     Evidence
   59.     Evidence of analysts
   60.     Immunity of inspectors
   61.     Regulations
   62.     Orders
   63.     Prescribing matters by reference to other instruments
   64.     Repeals, savings and transitional
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