S.I. No. 208/1957:

OIL POLLUTION OF THE SEA (SHIPS' EQUIPMENT) REGULATIONS, 1957.

OIL POLLUTION OF THE SEA (SHIPS' EQUIPMENT) REGULATIONS, 1957.

I, SEÁN F. LEMASS, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by subsection (1) of section hereby make the following regulations :--

16 of the Oil Pollution of the Sea Act, 1956 (No. 25 of 1956),

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Oil Pollution of the Sea (Ships' Equipment) Regulations, 1957.

(2) These Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of March, 1958.

2. These Regulations shall apply to every ship registered in the State which uses oil as fuel for either engines or boilers.

3. Every ship to which these Regulations apply shall be fitted so as effectively to prevent oil fuel from leaking or draining from machinery spaces into bilges unless the contents of the bilges are subjected to an effective means of separating the oil therefrom before they are pumped into the sea.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 14th day of October, 1957.

SEÁN F. LEMASS,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.

Explanatory Note.

These Regulations require oil-fuelled Irish registered ships to be so fitted as to prevent oil fuel from leaking or draining from machinery spaces into bilges.