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in respect of an offence against this Act may be served on the agent of the ship instead.

"(2) A document served on the agent of a ship under subsection (1) is taken to have been served on the master or owner of the ship.".

New Schedules 6, 7 and 8

26. The Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the Schedules set out in Schedule 1 to this Act.

Increase in penalties

  27. The Principal Act is further amended as set out in Schedule 2.

          SCHEDULE 1 Section 26

NEW SCHEDULES 6, 7 AND 8 TO BE ADDED TO THE PROTECTION OF THE SEA (PREVENTION OF POLLUTION FROM SHIPS) ACT 1983

          SCHEDULE 6 Section 3

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

adopted on 1 December 1987

(Designation of the Gulf of Aden as a Special Area)

THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION COMMITTEE,

NOTING the functions which article 16 of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 (hereinafter referred to as the "1973 Convention") and resolution A.297 (VIII) confer on the Marine Environment Protection Committee for the consideration and adoption of amendments to the 1973 Convention,

NOTING FURTHER 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"),

HAVING CONSIDERED at its twenty-fifth 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 resolution;

 2.  DETERMINES in accordance with article 16 (2) (f) (iii) of the 1973 Convention that the amendments shall be deemed to have been accepted on 1 October 1988 unless prior to this date one third or more of the Parties or the Parties, the combined merchant fleets of which constitute fifty per cent or more of the gross tonnage of the world's merchant fleet, have communicated to the Organization their objections to the amendments;

 3.  INVITES the Parties to note that in accordance with article 16 (2) (g) (ii) of the 1973 Convention the amendments shall enter into force on 1 April 1989 upon their acceptance in accordance with paragraph 2 above;
SCHEDULE 1—continued

4.     REQUESTS the Secretary-General in conformity with article 16 (2) (e) of the 1973 Convention to transmit to all Parties to the 1978 Protocol certified copies of the present resolution and the text of the amendments contained in