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Merchant Shipping (Civil Liability and Compensation for Oil Pollution) Act · 2024 Revised Edition · Part 2
Merchant Shipping (Civil Liability and Compensation for Oil Pollution) Act · 2024 Revised Edition · Part 2
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Notwithstanding Part I of the Reciprocal Enforcement of Foreign
Judgments Act (Chapter 177) and any rule of law relating to the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, any judgment given by a court in a country which is not a Liability Convention country in respect of any liability for oil pollution incurred by the owner of a ship in that country may be recognised and enforced by the Court only up to the limit of liability prescribed by section 6.
Merchant Shipping
(Civil Liability and Compensation for Oil Pollution)
oil
“oil” means any persistent hydrocarbon mineral oil such as crude oil, fuel oil, heavy diesel oil and lubricating oil, whether carried on board a ship as cargo or in the bunkers of ship;
Liability Convention
“Liability Convention” means the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, 1992;
Liability Convention country
“Liability Convention country” means a country in respect of which the Liability Convention in force; Merchant Shipping (Civil Liability and Compensation for Oil Pollution)
oil
“oil” means any persistent hydrocarbon mineral oil such as crude oil, fuel oil, heavy diesel oil and lubricating oil, whether carried on board a ship as cargo or in the bunkers of ship;
owner
“owner”, in relation to a ship, means the person registered as the owner of the ship or, in the absence of registration, the person owning the ship, except that, in relation to a ship owned by a State which is operated by a person registered in that State as the ship’s operator, it means the person registered as its operator;
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