S.I. No. 116/1995 - Prevention of Pollution From Ships (Marpol 73/78) (Countries of Acceptance) Order, 1995.

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL 73/78) (Countries of Acceptance) Order, 1995.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 15th day of May, 1995.

2. It is hereby declared—

(

a

) that the Government of each of the countries specified in Part I of the Schedule to this Order has accepted the MARPOL Convention, and

(

b

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

SCHEDULE

PART I

Algeria

Gambia

Peru

Antigua and Barbuda

Georgia

Poland

Argentina

Germany

Portugal

Australia

Ghana

Republic of Korea

Austria

Greece

Romania

Bahamas

Hungary

Russian Federation

Barbados

Iceland

Saint Vincent and

Belarus

India

the Grenadines

Belgium

Indonesia

Seychelles

Brazil

Israel

Singapore

Brunei Darussalam

Italy

Slovakia

Bulgaria

Jamaica

Slovenia

Cambodia

Japan

South Africa

Canada

Kazakhstan

Spain

Chile

Kenya

Suriname

China

Latvia

Sweden

Colombia

Lebanon

Switzerland

Cote d'Ivoire

Liberia

Syrian Arab Republic

Croatia

Lithuania

Togo

Cuba

Luxembourg

Tunisia

Cyprus

Malta

Turkey

Czech Republic

Marshall Islands

Tuvalu

Democratic People's

Mexico

Ukraine

Republic of Korea

Monaco

United Kingdom

Denmark

Morocco

United States

Djibouti

Myanmar

Uruguay

Ecuador

Netherlands

Vanuatu

Egypt

Norway

Venezuela

Estonia

Oman

Viet Nam

Finland

Pakistan

Yugoslavia

France

Panama

Gabon

Papua New Guinea

PART II

Faroe Islands

Netherlands Antilles

Aruba

Hong Kong

Isle of Man

Cayman Islands

Bermuda

Gibraltar

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 3rd day of May, 1995.

HUGH COVENEY,

Minister for the Marine.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order declares that the Governments of the countries specified in Part I of the Schedule thereto have accepted the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as amended by the Protocol thereto, 1978 commonly known as MARPOL 73/78 and that the Convention extends to the Territories specified in Part II of the Schedule.

S.I. No. 116 of 1995.

PREVENTION OF POLLUTION FROM SHIPS (MARPOL 73/78) (COUNTRIES OF ACCEPTANCE) ORDER, 1995.

I, HUGH COVENEY, Minister for the Marine, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 28

of the

Sea Pollution Act, 1991

(No. 27 of 1991), hereby order as follows