S.I. No. 123/1994:

SEA POLLUTION ACT, 1991 (SECTION 8) (COMMENCEMENT) ORDER, 1994.

SEA POLLUTION ACT, 1991 (SECTION 8) (COMMENCEMENT) ORDER, 1994.

I, DAVID ANDREWS, Minister for the Marine, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 2 of the Sea Pollution Act, 1991 (No. 27 of 1991), hereby order as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Sea Pollution Act, 1991 (Section 8) (Commencement) Order, 1994.

2. The 1st day of June, 1994 is hereby appointed as the day on which Section 8 of the Sea Pollution Act, 1991 shall come into operation.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 29th day of April, 1994.

DAVID ANDREWS,

Minister for the Marine.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The Order brings into operation section 8 of the Sea Pollution Act, 1991 . All other sections of the Act were brought into operation on the 20th day of November, 1992 under the Sea Pollution Act, 1991 (Commencement) Order, 1992 ( S.I. No. 380 of 1992 ).

Section 8 relates to the repeal of the Oil Pollution of the Sea Acts 1956 to 1977 as set out in the First Schedule to the Act on the coming into operation of the Sea Pollution (Prevention of Oil Pollution) Regulations, 1994.