Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) (Amendment) Act, 2001 (No. 11 of 2001)

Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) (Amendment) Act, 2001 No. 11 of 2001 An Act to amend the Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) Act [Date of Assent: 31st August, 2001] Enacted by the Parliament of The Bahamas. Short title and commencement. Ch. 253. . 1 . (1) This Act, which amends the Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) Act may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) (Amendment) Act, 2001. (2) Except as provided in section 2, this Act is deemed to have come into operation on the 29th December, 2000. 2. Notwithstanding section l (2) (b) of the Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) (Amendment) Act, 2000, the Second Schedule to the Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) Act, inserted by section 17 of the Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) (Amendment) Act, 2000, is deemed to have come into operation on the 1st day of April, 1998. 3. Section 58 of the principal Act if repealed. 4. The First Schedule to the principal Act is amended by deleting subparagraph (4) of paragraph 7 and substituting therefore the following – “(4) Where a person specified in subparagraph (1), (2) or (3) contravenes that subparagraph, that person is guilty of an offence and is liable (a) on summary conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars; or (b) on conviction on information to a fine of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.”.