UK Statutory Instruments – Text Field
The Text field in the UK Statutory Instruments database on Justis contains the main body of the Statutory Instrument. For example:
1. This Order may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution) (Law of the Sea Convention) Order 1996 and shall come into force on the fourteenth day after the day on which it is made.
2.-(1) The Secretary of State may make regulations for the purpose of giving effect to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982 ("the Convention") ( b ), so far as it relates to the protection and preservation of the marine environment from pollution by matter from ships, and in particular to the following articles in Part XII of the Convention, namely articles 211, 218, 220 and 223 to 233.
(2) Such regulations may in particular include provision-
(a) with respect to the approval of documents and the carrying out of surveys and inspections, and for the issue, duration and recognition of certificates;
(b) with respect to the application of the regulations to the Crown and the extra-territorial operation of the regulations;
(c) that specified contraventions of the regulations shall be offences punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum and on conviction on indictment by a fine;
(d) that specified contraventions of the regulations shall be offences punishable only …
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