The Dumping at Sea Act 1974 (Overseas Territories) Order 1975

Enforcement of Conventions

6.—(1) If an order is in force in the United Kingdom made under section 6(1) of this Act as in force there (in this section referred to as “the original Act”) declaring—

(a) that any procedure (which has been developed for the effective application of the London Convention, the Oslo Convention or any designated Convention) specified in the order is an accepted procedure as between Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the Government of any Convention State so specified, and

(b) that the powers conferred by subsections (5) to (10) of section 5 of the original Act may be exercised for the purpose of the enforcement of that procedure outside United Kingdom waters—

(i) in relation to a British ship or hovercraft (as defined in the original Act), by a person of a specified class appointed to enforce it by the Government of that State, and

(ii) in relation to a ship or hovercraft of that State, by a British enforcement officer,

then the powers conferred by subsections (5) to (10) of section 5 of this Act may be exercised for the purpose of the enforcement of that procedure outside the territorial waters of the Territory—

(A) in relation to a British ship or hovercraft, by a person of the class specified in the said order, and

(B) in relation to a ship or hovercraft of the State specified in that order, by a local enforcement officer.

(2) A person belonging to a class specified in an order referred to in the preceding subsection is referred to in this Act as a “foreign enforcement officer”, but any reference to a foreign enforcement officer in the following provisions of this Act shall be construed, in relation to any person of a class so specified, as applying to him only for the purposes of the procedure specified in the order as the procedure for whose enforcement his Government appointed him.