SCHEDULE 2

PART Bfurther modifications of the provisions of the merchant shipping (prevention of oil pollution) regulations 1983 applied by article 3

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In regulation 7—

a

in paragraph (1)(a), for the words “other ship of 400 GRT and above” substitute “hovercraft having a maximum operational weight of 150 tonnes or above”;

b

for paragraph (7) substitute—

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One copy of the appropriate Certificate shall be kept on board every hovercraft which is required by virtue of these Regulations to have one and shall be available for inspection at all reasonable times.