SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5Liability of shipowners and salvors: consequential amendments

The M1Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) Act 1971

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(1)

In sections 5(4)(b) and 7(b) of the Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) Act 1971 for the words " the Merchant Shipping (Liability of Shipowners and Others) Act 1958 " there shall be substituted the words the Merchant Shipping Act 1979.

(2)

For section 15(2) of that Act there shall be substituted—

“(2)

For the purposes of section 17 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 (limitation of liability) any liability incurred under this section shall be deemed to be a liability in respect of such damage to property as is mentioned in paragraph 1(a) of article 2 of the Convention in Part I of Schedule 4 to that Act.”