Merchant Shipping (Supplementary Fund) (Amendment) Regulations, 2025 (SL 73 of 2025)
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Merchant Shipping (Supplementary Fund) (Amendment) Regulations, Regulation 1
Merchant Shipping Act, 2024 MERCHANT SHIPPING (SUPPLEMENTARY FUND) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 2025 In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 404 and 457 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 2024, the Cabinet makes the following Regulations — Citation and commencement (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Supplementary Fund) (Amendment) Regulations, 2025. (2) These Regulations come into force immediately after the Merchant Shipping (Supplementary Fund) Regulations, 2025 come into force. Amendment of regulation 2 of the Merchant Shipping (Supplementary Fund) Regulations, 2025 - definitions The Merchant Shipping (Supplementary Fund) Regulations, 2025 are amended in regulation 2(1) as follows — (a) by deleting the definition of the words “bunker oil”; (b) by deleting the definition of the word “oil” and substituting the following definition — “ “oil” means persistent hydrocarbon mineral oil except in regulations 3 and 4;”;
Regulation 3 Merchant Shipping (Supplementary Fund) (Amendment) Regulations,
in the definition of the words “pollution damage”, by deleting the words “or bunker oil”; (d) in the definition of the words “relevant threat of contamination”, by deleting the words “, including bunker oil,”; and (e) in the definition of the word “ship”, by inserting after the words “Chapter 7” the words “of Part 14”. Amendment of regulation 8 of the Merchant Shipping (Supplementary Fund) Regulations, 2025 - extinguishment of claims The Merchant Shipping (Supplementary Fund) Regulations, 2025 are amended in regulation 8(1), by deleting the words “the claim against the Supplementary Fund arose” and substituting the words “the damage occurred”. Made in Cabinet the 17th day of December, 2025. Kim Bullings Clerk of the Cabinet