Merchant Shipping (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Order 1997 (S.I. No. 2569 of 1997).

This Order further amends the Merchant Shipping (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Order so as to provide that the penalties provided for by section 131(3) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 may be applied in respect of contraventions of Regulations made under the principal Order as may be specified in those Regulations as they apply to contraventions of section 131. The Order also provides that Regulations made under the 1987 Order may apply sections 143(6), 144 or 146 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 to contraventions of the Regulations, subject to such modifications, if any, as are specified in the Regulations.