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POLLUTION FROM SHIPS, 1973

ANNEX V

REGULATIONS FOR THE PREVENTION OF POLLUTION BY GARBAGE FROM SHIPS

Regulation 5 is amended to read as follows:

Regulation 5

Disposal of Garbage within Special Areas

(1) For the purposes of this Annex, the special areas are the Mediterranean Sea area, the Baltic Sea area, the Black Sea area, the Red Sea area, the "Gulfs area", the North Sea area and the Antarctic area, which are defined as follows:

  (a)-(f) No change.

(g) The Antarctic area means the sea area south of 60° south latitude.

(2)-(4) No change.

(5) Notwithstanding paragraph 4 of this Regulation, the following rules apply to the Antarctic area:

      (a)     The Government of each Party to the Convention whose ports are used by ships departing en route to or arriving from the Antarctic area undertakes to ensure that as soon as practicable adequate facilities are provided for the reception of all garbage from all ships, without causing undue delay, and according to the needs of the ships using them.

      (b)    The Government of each Party to the Convention shall ensure that all ships entitled to fly its flag, before entering the Antarctic area, have sufficient capacity on board for the retention of all garbage while operating in the area and have concluded arrangements to discharge such garbage at a reception facility after leaving the area.

                  SCHEDULE 5 Subsection 44(3)

SCHEDULES TO BE INSERTED IN THE PROTECTION OF THE SEA (PREVENTION OF POLLUTION FROM SHIPS) ACT 1983

                 SCHEDULE 10 Section 3

RESOLUTION MEPC.48(31)

adopted on 4 July 1991

AMENDMENTS TO THE ANNEX OF THE PROTOCOL OF 1978 RELATING TO THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION FOR THE PREVENTION OF POLLUTION FROM SHIPS, 1973

(Designation of the Wider Caribbean area as a special area under Annex V of MARPOL 73/78)

THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION COMMITTEE,

RECALLING Article 38(a) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,

NOTING article 16 of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 (hereinafter referred to as the "1973 Convention") and article VI of the Protocol of 1978 relating to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 (hereinafter referred to as the "1978 Protocol") which confer upon the appropriate body of the Organization the function of considering and adopting amendments to the 1973 Convention, as modified by the 1978 Protocol (MARPOL 73/78),

HAVING CONSIDERED, at its thirty-first session, amendments to the 1978 Protocol proposed and circulated in accordance with article 16(2)(a) of the 1973 Convention,

 1.     ADOPTS, in accordance with article 16(2)(d) of the 1973 Convention, amendments to the Annex of the 1978 Protocol, the text of which is set out in the Annex to the present