| Division 1 — Liability |
| Liability for oil pollution |
| Exceptions from liability under section 3 |
4. No liability shall be incurred by the owner of a ship under section 3 by reason of any discharge or escape of oil from the ship, or by reason of any relevant threat of contamination, if he proves that the discharge or escape, or the threat of contamination, as the case may be —
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| Restriction of liability for oil pollution |
5.—(1) Where, as a result of any occurrence —
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| Limitation of liability under section 3 |
6.—(1) Where, as a result of any occurrence, the owner of a ship incurs a liability under section 3 by reason of a discharge or escape or by reason of any relevant threat of contamination, then, subject to subsection (4) —
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| Limitation actions |
7.—(1) Where the owner of a ship has or is alleged to have incurred a liability under section 3, he may apply to the Court for the limitation of that liability to an amount determined in accordance with section 6.
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| Restriction on enforcement of claims after establishment of limitation fund |
8. Where the Court has found that a person who has incurred a liability under section 3 is entitled to limit that liability to any amount and he has paid into Court or to the Authority a sum not less than that amount —
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| Concurrent liabilities of owners and others |
9. Where, as a result of any discharge or escape of oil from a ship or as a result of any relevant threat of contamination, the owner of the ship incurs a liability under section 3 and any other person incurs a liability, otherwise than under that section, for any such damage or cost as is mentioned in subsection (1) or (2) of that section, then, if —
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| Establishment of limitation fund outside Singapore |
| 10. Where the events resulting in the liability of any person under section 3 also resulted in a corresponding liability under the law of another Liability Convention country, sections 8 and 9 shall apply as if the references to sections 3 and 7 included references to the corresponding provisions of that law and the references to sums paid into Court included references to any sums secured under these provisions in respect of the liability. |
| Exclusions |
11.—(1) Sections 6 to 10 shall not apply to a ship which at the time of the discharge or escape of oil from the ship, or at the time the relevant threat of contamination arose, as the case may be, was registered in a country —
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| Extinguishment of claims |
| 12. No action to enforce a claim in respect of a liability incurred under section 3 shall be entertained by any court in Singapore unless the action is commenced not later than 3 years after the claim arose nor later than 6 years after the occurrence or first of the occurrences resulting in the discharge or escape, or in the relevant threat of contamination, as the case may be, by reason of which the liability was incurred. |