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PROTECTION OF THE SEA (CIVIL LIABILITY FOR BUNKER OIL POLLUTION DAMAGE) ACT 2008 - SECT 26

Submission to jurisdiction

  (1)   In any proceedings brought in a court in Australia to enforce a claim in respect of a liability incurred under the applied provisions, each foreign country to which the Bunker Oil Convention applies is taken to:

  (a)   have submitted to the jurisdiction of that court; and

  (b)   have waived any defence based on its status as a sovereign country.

  (2)   Nothing in this section permits the levy of execution against the property of such a country.



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