Commencement: 17 October 1988

REPUBLIC OF VANUATU

THE MARITIME (CONVENTIONS) (AMENDMENT)
ACT No. 17 OF 1988

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1. Amendment of schedule of Act No. 29 of 1982.
2. Commencement.

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THE MARITIME (CONVENTIONS) (AMENDMENT) ACT

No. 17 OF 1988

Assent:
Commencement: 17/10/88

An Act to amend the Maritime (Conventions) Act No. 29 of 1982 by providing for the application in Vanuatu of certain International Maritime Conventions.

BE IT ENACTED by the President and Parliament as follows:-

AMENDMENT OF SCHEDULE OF ACT No. 29 OF 1982

1. The Maritime (Conventions) Act No. 29 of 1982 is further amended in the Schedule:

(a) by deleting "International Conference on Marine Pollution, 1973", "International Conference on Tanker Safety and Pollution Prevention, 1978" and substituting therefore "International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 (MARPOL 73)", "Protocol of 1978 Relating to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973";

(b) by the addition thereto of the following International Maritime Conventions:-

"- Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972, as amended (COLREG 1972);

- International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships, 1969 (Tonnage 69);

- International Convention for Safe Containers, 1972 (CSC, 1972);

- Athens Convention Relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea, 1974 (PAL 74);

- Protocol to the Athens Convention Relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea, 1974;

- Convention on Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic, 1965 (FAL 1965);

- Protocol of 1976 to the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, 1969;

- International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage, 1971 (FUND 1971);

- 1976 and 1984 Protocols Relating to the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage, 1971."

COMMENCEMENT

2. This Act shall come into force on the day of its publication in the Gazette.

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