STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS.

S.I. No. 223 of 1981.

OIL POLLUTION OF THE SEA (INTERVENTION CONVENTION COUNTRIES) ORDER, 1981.

S.I. No. 223 of 1981.

OIL POLLUTION OF THE SEA (INTERVENTION CONVENTION COUNTRIES) ORDER, 1981.

I, ALBERT REYNOLDS, Minister for 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 territory 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 Tourism and Transport (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order, 1980 ( S.I. No. 11 of 1980 ), order as follows:

1.   (1) This Order may be cited as the Oil Pollution of the Sea (Intervention Convention Countries) Order, 1981.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of July, 1981.

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 territory specified in Part II of that Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

Part I.

Portugal

Papua New Guinea

Iceland

Ireland

Part II.

Bermuda

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

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 1 of the Schedule to the Order and that the Convention extends to the territory specified in Part II of the Schedule.