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SCHEDULE 2

PART Bfurther modifications of the provisions of the merchant shipping (prevention of oil pollution) regulations 1983 applied by article 3

(8)  In regulation 14—

(a)for paragraph (1) substitute—

(1)  Every hovercraft having a maximum operational weight of 150 tonnes or above but less than 1,000 tonnes shall be fitted with oily-water separating equipment(100 ppm equipment) complying with paragraph (6) of this regulation. Any hovercraft to which these Regulations apply which carries ballast water in its bunker fuel tanks shall comply with paragraph (2) of this regulation notwithstanding that it has a maximum operational weight of less than 1,000 tonnes.;

(b)in paragraph (2), for the words “Subject to paragraph (4)” to “apply” substitute “Every hovercraft having a maximum operational weight above 1,000 tonnes”;

(c)in paragraph (3)(b), for the words “ships of less than 400 GRT” substitute “hovercraft having a maximum operational weight of less than 150 tonnes”;

(d)in paragraph (7), for the words “ships less than 10,000 GRT” substitute “hovercraft having a maximum operational weight of less than 1,000 tonnes”.