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PROTECTION OF THE SEA (CIVIL LIABILITY FOR BUNKER OIL POLLUTION DAMAGE) ACT 2008 - SECT 29

Treatment of unincorporated associations

  (1)   This Act applies to an unincorporated association as if it were a person, but with the changes set out in this section.

  (2)   An obligation that would otherwise be imposed on the association by this Act is imposed on each member of the association's committee of management instead, but may be discharged by any of the members.

  (3)   An offence against this Act that would otherwise be committed by the association is taken to have been committed by each member of the association's committee of management who knows or ought reasonably to know that the association is the registered owner of the ship concerned.



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