Oil Pollution of the Sea (Civil Liability and Compensation) (Amendment) Act 2003

Amendment of section 3 (interpretation) of Act of 1988.

3.—Section 3 (as amendment by section 3 of the Act of 1988) of the Act of 1988 is amended—

(a) by inserting in subsection (1) the following definition after the definition of “aggregate amount of compensation”:

“ ‘Assembly of the Supplementary Fund’ means the Assembly specified in Article 16 of the Supplementary Fund Protocol;”,

and

(b) by inserting in subsection (1) the following definitions after the definition of “ship”:

“ ‘Supplementary Fund’ means the International Oil Pollution Compensation Supplementary Fund 2003, established by the Supplementary Fund Protocol;

‘Supplementary Fund Protocol’ means the Protocol of 2003 to the International Convention on the establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage, done at London on 16 May 2003;”.