S.I. No. 323/1971 - Oil Pollution of the Sea (Convention Countries and Convention Amendment Countries) Order, 1971.

S.I. No. 323 of 1971.

OIL POLLUTION OF THE SEA (CONVENTION COUNTRIES AND CONVENTION AMENDMENT COUNTRIES) ORDER, 1971.

I, BRIAN LENIHAN, Minister for Transport and Power, being satisfied that the governments of the countries specified in the Schedule hereto have accepted the International Convention for Prevention of Pollution of the Sea by Oil, 1964, and the amendments to that Convention which were adopted on the 11th day of April, 1962, by the Conference of Contracting Governments to that Convention, hereby, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 19 (1) of the Oil Pollution of the Sea Act, 1956 (No. 25 of 1956), and the Transport, Fuel and Power (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1959 ( S.I. No. 125 of 1959 .), order as follows:

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Oil Pollution of the Sea (Convention Countries and Convention Amendment Countries) Order, 1971.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 20th day of December, 1971.

2. It is hereby declared that the countries specified in the Schedule to this Order have accepted the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution of the Sea by Oil, 1954, and the amendments to that Convention which were adopted on the 11th day of April, 1962, by the Conference of Contracting Governments to that Convention.

SCHEDULE.

Monaco

New Zealand

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 6th day of December, 1971.

BRIAN LENIHAN,

Minister for Transport and Power.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

Ships registered in the countries listed in this Order may, while in an Irish port or territorial waters, be inspected to verify that they comply with the Oil Pollution of the Sea Acts.