Oil Pollution (Liability and Compensation) Act

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta, Nru. 17,465, 29 ta’ Awissu, 2003

L.N. 223 of 2003

OIL POLLUTION (LIABILITY AND COMPENSATION) ACT

(CAP. 412)

Oil Pollution (Liability and Compensation) Act

(Amendment of Schedules) Regulations, 2003

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 7 and 8 of the Oil

Pollution (Liability and Compensation) Act, the Minister for Transport

and Communications has made the following regulations:–

(1) The title of these regulations is the Oil Pollution Title and

(Liability and Compensation) Act (Amendment of Schedules) commencement.

Regulations, 2003, and shall be read and construed as one with the First

and Second Schedules to the Oil Pollution (Liability and Compensation)

Act, hereinafter referred to as “the First Schedule” and “the Second Cap. 412

Schedule”.

(2) These regulations shall come into force on the 1 st November,

2003.

In Article V paragraph 1 of the First Schedule for the words – Amends the First

Schedule.

(a) “3 million units of account” there shall be substituted

the words “4,510,000 units of account”;

(b) “420 units of account” there shall be substituted the

words “631 units of account”;

(c) “59.7 million units of account” there shall be substituted

the words “89,770,000 units of account”.

Article 4 paragraph 4 of the Second Schedule shall be Amends the Second

Schedule.

amended as follows –

(a) in sub-paragraph (a) thereof, for the words “135 million

units of account” there shall be substituted the words “203,000,000

units of account”;

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(b) in sub-paragraph (b) thereof, for the words “135 million

units of account” there shall be substituted the words “203,000,000

units of account”; and

(c) in sub-paragraph (c) thereof, for the words “200 million

units of account” there shall be substituted the words “300,740,000

units of account”.

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