S.I. No. 369/1979 - Oil Pollution of the Sea (Intervention Convention Countries) Order, 1979.

1. (1) This order may be cited as the Oil Pollution of the Sea (Intervention Convention Countries) Order, 1979.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of December, 1979.

2. It is hereby declared—

(

a

) that the countries specified in Part I of the Schedule to this Order have accepted the International Convention relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Oil Pollution Casualties, 1969, and

(

b

) that the Convention extends to the territories specified in Part II of that Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

PART I

Denmark

New Zealand,

United Kingdom

Germany, Federal Republic of

Japan

Lebanon

Belgium

Netherlands

Senegal

Surinam

United States of America

German Democratic Republic

Norway

Yemen Arab Republic

Dominican Republic

Fiji

Syrian Arab Republic

Liberia

Monaco

Sweden

Spain

Finland

France

Ecuador

Morocco

Ghana

USSR

Panama

Mexico

Italy

Tunisia

Yugoslavia

Cuba

Bahamas

Poland

PART II

Hong Kong

American Samoa

Puerto Rico

Trust Territories of the Pacific

Guam

Islands

Panama Canal Zone

Netherlands Antilles

Virgin Islands

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 14th day of November, 1979.

PÁDRAIG FAULKNER,

Minister for Tourism and

Transport.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order declares that the International Convention relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Oil Pollution Casualties, 1969 has been accepted by the countries specified in Part I of the Schedule to the Order and that the Convention extends to the Territories specified in Part II of the Schedule.

S.I. No. 369 of 1979.

OIL POLLUTION OF THE SEA (INTERVENTION CONVENTION COUNTRIES) ORDER, 1979.

I, PÁDRAIG FAULKNER, Minister for Tourism and Transport, being satisfied that the governments of the countries specified in Part I of the Schedule hereto, have accepted the International Convention relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Oil Pollution Casualties, 1969, and that the Convention extends to the territories specified in Part II of the Schedule hereto, 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), the Transport, Fuel and Power (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1959 (

S.I. No. 125 of 1959

), and the Transport and Power (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order, 1977 (

S.I. No. 305 of 1977

), order as follows