Prevention of Oil Pollution (Enforcement of Convention) (Bermuda) Order 1980

Title 31 Laws of Bermuda Item 20(a) 1989 Revision 1 UNITED KINGDOM STATUTORY INSTRUMENT SI 1980 No. 1521 THE PREVENTION OF OIL POLLUTION (ENFORCEMENT OF CONVENTION) (BERMUDA) ORDER 1980 [made by Her Majesty in Council under the Prevention of Oil Pollution Act 1971, brought into operation on 1 December 1980 and published in Bermuda as GN 596/1980] 1 This Order may be cited as the Prevention of Oil Pollution (Enforcement of Convention) (Bermuda) Order 1980 and shall come into operation on 1st December, 1980. 2 Without prejudice to any powers exercisable by surveyors of ships otherwise than by virtue of this Order every surveyor of ships is hereby designated as a person empowered to go on board any ship to which the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution of the Sea by Oil 1954 applies, while the ship is within a harbour in Bermuda, and to require production of any oil record book required to be kept in accordance with that Convention. 3 The provisions of the Act, as extended to Bermuda, specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Order modified as set out in the second column of the said Schedule shall apply for the purposes of this Order. Title 31 Laws of Bermuda Item 20(a) 1989 Revision 2 SCHEDULE Provision of the Act [The Prevention of Oil Pollution Act 1971 as extended to Bermuda title 31 item 20] Text as modified Subsection 6 of sec tion 17: In any proceedings under this Act — (a) any oil record book carried or record kept in pursuance of the Convention of 1954 shall be admissible as evidence of the facts stated in it; (b) any copy of an entry in such an oil record book or record which is certified by the master of the ship in which the book is carried to be a true copy of the entry shall be admissible as evidence of the facts stated in the entry; (c) any document purporting to be an oil record book carried or record kept in pursuance of the Convention of 1954, or purporting to be such a certified copy as is mentioned in the preceding paragraph, shall, unless the contrary is proved, be presumed to be such a book, record or copy, as the case may be. Subsection 5 of sec tion 18: Any power conferred upon a surveyor of ships by any Order in Council made under section 21 of this Act to require production of any oil record book required to be carried or records required to be kept in pursuance of the Convention of 1954 shall include power to copy any entry therein and to require the master to certify the copy as a true copy of the entry. Title 31 Laws of Bermuda Item 20(a) 1989 Revision 3 Subsection 8 of sec tion 18: If any person fails to comply with any requirement duly made in pursuance of any power conferred by an Order in Council made under section 21 of this Act or by any provisions of this Act as applied for the purposes of any such Order, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $50; and if any person wilfully obstructs a person acting in the exercise of any power so conferred he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $250. Title 31 Laws of Bermuda Item 20(a) 1989 Revision 4 [This page intentionally left blank]