The Merchant Shipping (Salvage and Pollution) Act 1994 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1994

Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 1988 (C.37)

MERCHANT SHIPPING

The Merchant Shipping (Salvage and Pollution) Act 1994 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1994

Made

26th July 1994

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 10(4) of the Merchant Shipping (Salvage and Pollution) Act 1994(1), hereby makes the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Salvage and Pollution) Act 1994 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1994.

2.  The provisions of the Merchant Shipping (Salvage and Pollution) Act 1994 specified in the first column of Schedule 1 to this Order (which relate to the matters specified in the second column of that Schedule) shall come into force on 28th July 1994.

3.  The provisions of the Merchant Shipping (Salvage and Pollution) Act 1994 specified in the first column of Schedule 2 to this Order (which relate to the matters specified in the second column of that Schedule) shall come into force on 1st October 1994.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Goschen

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Transport

26th July 1994

Article 2

SCHEDULE 1 Provisions coming into force on 28th July 1994

Provisions of Merchant Shipping (Salvage and Pollution) Act 1994	Subject matter of provisions
Section 3	Amendments as to powers of implementation
Section 9	Expenses
Section 10, subsections (1), (2), (4) and (5)	Short title, citation, construction, commencement and extent

Article 3

SCHEDULE 2 Provisions coming into force on 1st October 1994

Provisions of Merchant Shipping (Salvage and Pollution) Act 1994	Subject matter of provisions
Section 6, subsection (1), so far as it relates to Part I of Schedule 3, and (2)	Extension of strict liability for oil pollution by ships
Section 7	Extension of rights of Fund by subrogation
Section 8	Functions of Secretary of State in relation to marine pollution
Section 10, subsection (3), to the extent that it relates to the repeals in Schedule 4 specified below	Repeals
Schedule 3, Part I	Extension of strict liability for oil pollution by ships
In Schedule 4, the repeals in:	Repeals
Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) Act 1971(2)
Prevention of Oil Pollution Act 1971(3)
Merchant Shipping Act 1974(4)

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force provisions of the Merchant Shipping (Salvage and Pollution) Act 1994 as follows—

(a) on 28th July 1994, amendments to section 20 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1994 (powers of implementation of international agreements relating to marine pollution), and ancillary provisions; and

(b) on 1st October 1994, amendments to the Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) Act 1971 and the Merchant Shipping Act 1974, in connection with liability and compensation for oil pollution, and provisions concerning the functions of the Secretary of State in relation to oil pollution.

(1)

1994 c. 28.

(2)

1971 c. 59.

(3)

1971 c. 60.

(4)

1974 c. 43.