S.I. No. 203/1957:

OIL POLLUTION OF THE SEA ACT, 1956 (COMMENCEMENT) ORDER, 1957.

OIL POLLUTION OF THE SEA ACT, 1956 (COMMENCEMENT) ORDER, 1957.

I, SEÁN F. LEMASS, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the power conferred on me by section 2 of the Oil Pollution of the Sea Act, 1956 (No. 25 of 1956), hereby order as follows :--

1. This Order may be cited as the Oil Pollution of the Sea Act, 1956 (Commencement) Order, 1957.

2. The Oil Pollution of the Sea Act, 1956 (No. 25 of 1956), except so much of subsection (1) and subsection (2) of section 9 as refers to Parts III and IV of the Schedule, shall come into operation on the first day of November, 1957.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 14th day of October, 1957.

SEÁN F. LEMASS,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.

Explanatory Note.

This Order brings into operation those provisions of the Oil Pollution of the Sea Act, 1956 , which generally speaking,

(a) prohibit the discharge from Irish ships of certain oils within the sea areas specified in Parts I and II of the Schedule to the Act ;

(b) prohibit the discharge from vessels of whatever nationality of certain oil within the territorial waters of the State.

The areas specified in Parts I and II of the Schedule to the Act include the seas up to 100 miles from the coasts of Ireland, Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands, the Federal Republic of Germany or Denmark and 50 miles from Norway, with the addition in the case of tankers of an area extending some 700 miles into the Atlantic Ocean.