S.I. No. 116/1995:

PREVENTION OF POLLUTION FROM SHIPS (MARPOL 73/78) (COUNTRIES OF ACCEPTANCE) ORDER, 1995.

PREVENTION OF POLLUTION FROM SHIPS (MARPOL 73/78) (COUNTRIES OF ACCEPTANCE) ORDER, 1995.

I, HUGH COVENEY, Minister for the Marine, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 28 of the Sea Pollution Act, 1991 (No. 27 of 1991), hereby order as follows:

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL 73/78) (Countries of Acceptance) Order, 1995.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 15th day of May, 1995.

2. It is hereby declared--

( a ) that the Government of each of the countries specified in Part I of the Schedule to this Order has accepted the MARPOL Convention, and

( b ) that the Convention extends to the territories specified in Part II of that Schedule.

SCHEDULE

PART I

PART II

Faroe Islands

Netherlands Antilles

Aruba

Hong Kong

Isle of Man

Cayman Islands

Bermuda

Gibraltar

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 3rd day of May, 1995.

HUGH COVENEY,

Minister for the Marine.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order declares that the Governments of the countries specified in Part I of the Schedule thereto have accepted the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as amended by the Protocol thereto, 1978 commonly known as MARPOL 73/78 and that the Convention extends to the Territories specified in Part II of the Schedule.