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Prevention of Pollution of the Sea Act

(CHAPTER 243)

Prevention of Pollution of the Sea
(Reception Facilities and Garbage Facilities)
(Amendment) Regulations 2017

In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 11(8) and 34 of the Prevention of Pollution of the Sea Act, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, with the approval of the Minister for Transport, makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Prevention of Pollution of the Sea (Reception Facilities and Garbage Facilities) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 and come into operation on 8 September 2017.

Deletion and substitution of regulation 3

2. Regulation 3 of the Prevention of Pollution of the Sea (Reception Facilities and Garbage Facilities) Regulations (Rg 4) (called in these Regulations the principal Regulations) is deleted and the following regulation substituted therefor:

“Application

3.—(1) The provisions of these Regulations in respect of reception facilities apply in relation to the port, or any terminal, if the port or terminal is used —

(a)	by oil tankers, chemical tankers or other ships carrying residues or mixtures which contain oil or noxious liquid substances; or
(b)	by ships carrying sediments.

(2) The provisions of these Regulations in respect of garbage facilities apply in relation to the port, or any terminal, if the port or terminal is used by ships carrying garbage.

(3) In relation to the provision of reception facilities for residues or mixtures containing oil or noxious liquid substances, a ship is taken to use the port or terminal if it undergoes repair or is broken up in the port or terminal.

(4) In relation to the provision of reception facilities for sediments, a ship is taken to use the port or terminal if its ballast tanks are cleaned or repaired in the port or terminal.”.

Amendment of regulation 5

3. Regulation 5 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “regulation 38 of Annex I or regulation 18 of Annex II of the Convention” and substituting the words “the requirements of regulation 38 of Annex I or regulation 18 of Annex II, or with the requirements of the Ballast Water Management Convention,”.

Amendment of regulation 8

4. Regulation 8 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)	by deleting the words “and the Convention” in paragraph (1)(a) and substituting the words “, the Convention and the Ballast Water Management Convention”; and
(b)	by deleting the words “reception facilities shall” in paragraph (3) and substituting the words “any reception facility, other than a reception facility for the discharge of sediments, must”.

[G.N. No. S 687/2006]

Made on 7 September 2017.

NIAM CHIANG MENG

Chairman,
Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore.

[MPA 46/06.C07.V02/LSK; AG/LEGIS/SL/243/2015/9 Vol. 1]