Oil in Navigable Waters Act, 1926

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Place for discharge of ballast water containing petroleum spirit.

4.—(1) It shall be lawful for the harbour authority of any harbour to appoint a place in that harbour at which ballast water containing petroleum spirit may be discharged from vessels in which a cargo of petroleum spirit has been carried.

(2) Whenever any harbour authority appoints under this section a place at which ballast water containing petroleum spirit may be discharged, such harbour authority shall at the time of such appointment and may from time to time thereafter specify the times at which and the conditions subject to which such ballast water may be discharged at that place.