This Act, with the direct purpose of prevention of pollution of the territorial waters of Gibraltar by oil, here sets the related necessary rules and provisions. The text is divided into 12 Sections, as follows: Short title; Interpretation and application; Discharge of oil into territorial waters; Further provision on offences; Special defences under section 3; Restrictions on transfer of oil at night; Keeping of records of matters relating to oil; Duty to report discharges of oil into territorial waters; Powers to inspect; Enforcement and application of fines; Legal proceedings; Powers of exemption; Application of Act to Crown. Any reference in any provision of this Act to a mixture containing oil shall be construed as a reference to any mixture of oil (or, as the case may be, of oil of a description referred to in that provision) with water or with any other substance. If any oil or mixture containing oil is discharged into territorial waters from any vessel, from any place on land or from any apparatus used for transferring oil from or to any vessel (whether to or from a place on land or to or from another vessel) then, subject to the provisions of this Act, if the discharge is from a vessel, the owner, charterer or master of the vessel; if the discharge is from a place on land, the occupier of that place and the person or persons under whose supervision any transfer of oil was taking place; or if the discharge is from apparatus used for transferring oil to or from a vessel, the person in charge of the apparatus and the person under whose supervision the apparatus was being used, is guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction to a fine up to level 5 on the standard scale and, on conviction on indictment, to a fine.
Гибралтар (Великобритания) · 1960-07-07