The objectives of these Regulations are to prescribe—
(a) the officers to whom, the manner and form in which, and the time within which a discharge or probable discharge of oil or an oily mixture must be notified or reported; and
(b) the operations and occurrences which necessitate entries being made in a ship's oil record book, the form of the oil record book and the officers with whom oil record books may be deposited; and
(c) exemptions from specified provisions of the Act and from these Regulations.