Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PROTECTION OF THE SEA (CIVIL LIABILITY) ACT 1981 - SCHEDULE 3

Note:   See section   3.

RESOLUTION LEG.1(82)

adopted on 18   October 2000

AMENDMENTS OF THE LIMITATION AMOUNTS IN THE PROTOCOL OF 1992 TO AMEND THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON CIVIL LIABILITY FOR OIL POLLUTION DAMAGE, 1969

THE LEGAL COMMITTEE at its eighty - second session:

  RECALLING Article 33(b) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization (hereinafter referred to as the "IMO Convention") concerning the functions of the Committee,

  MINDFUL of Article 36 of the IMO Convention concerning rules governing the procedures to be followed when exercising the functions conferred on it by or under any international convention or instrument,

  RECALLING FURTHER article 15 of the Protocol of 1992 to amend the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, 1969 (hereinafter referred to as the "1992 CLC Protocol") concerning the procedures for amending the limitation amounts set out in the article 6(1) of the 1992 CLC Protocol,

  HAVING CONSIDERED amendments to the limitation amounts proposed and circulated in accordance with the provisions of article 15(1) and (2) of the 1992 CLC Protocol,

1.   ADOPTS, in accordance with article 15(4) of the 1992 CLC Protocol, amendments to the limitation amounts set out in article 6(1) of the 1992 CLC Protocol, as set out in the Annex to this resolution;

2.   DETERMINES, in accordance with article 15(7) of the 1992 CLC Protocol, that these amendments shall be deemed to have been accepted on 1   May 2002 unless, prior to that date, not less than one quarter of the States that were Contracting States on the date of the adoption of these amendments (being 18   October 2000) have communicated to the Organization that they do not accept these amendments;

3.   FURTHER DETERMINES that, in accordance with article 15(8) of the 1992 CLC Protocol, these amendments, deemed to have been accepted in accordance with paragraph   2 above, shall enter into force on 1   November 2003;

4.   REQUESTS the Secretary - General, in accordance with articles 15(7) and 17(2)(v) of the 1992 CLC Protocol, to transmit certified copies of the present resolution and the amendments contained in the Annex thereto to all States which have signed or acceded to the 1992 CLC Protocol; and

5.   FURTHER REQUESTS the Secretary - General to transmit copies of the present resolution and its Annex to the Members of the Organization which have not signed or acceded to the 1992 CLC Protocol.

ANNEX

AMENDMENTS OF THE LIMITATION AMOUNTS IN THE PROTOCOL OF 1992 TO AMEND THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON CIVIL LIABILITY FOR OIL POLLUTION DAMAGE, 1969

Article 6(1) of the 1992 CLC Protocol is amended as follows:

  the reference to "3 million units of account" shall read "4,510,000 units               of account";

  the reference to "420 units of account" shall read "631 units of   account"; and

  the reference to "59.7 million units of account" shall read "89,770,000               units of account".