Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PROTECTION OF THE SEA (POWERS OF INTERVENTION) ACT 1981 No. 33, 1981 - SECT 22

22. Where -

   (a)  before the commencement of this Act, the Minister was satisfied that
        oil was likely to escape from a ship and had caused a notice under
        sub-section 329E (1) of the Navigation Act 1912 to be served on the
        owner of the ship in accordance with section 329F of that Act; and

   (b)  oil had not escaped from the ship before the commencement of this Act,
        the notice shall, after the commencement of this Act, be deemed, for
        the purposes of this Act, to be a direction issued by the Minister
        under paragraph 10 (3) (b) of this Act to the owner of the ship and to
        have been served on the owner of the ship in accordance with section
        17 of this Act at the commencement of this Act.