Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PROTECTION OF THE SEA (POWERS OF INTERVENTION) ACT 1981 - SCHEDULE 3

Subsection   3 (1)

adopted on 4   July 1991

REVISION OF THE LIST OF SUBSTANCES TO BE ANNEXED TO THE PROTOCOL RELATING TO INTERVENTION ON THE HIGH SEAS IN CASES OF MARINE POLLUTION BY SUBSTANCES OTHER THAN OIL

THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION COMMITTEE,

NOTING Resolution 26 of the International Conference on Marine Pollution, 1973 which requested the appropriate body designated by the Organization to establish, not later than 30   November 1974, the list of substances to be annexed to the Protocol relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Marine Pollution by Substances Other than Oil, 1973, (the 1973 Protocol),

NOTING FURTHER Resolution A.296 (VIII) by which the Assembly designated the Committee as the appropriate body referred to in articles I and III of the above - mentioned Protocol,

RECALLING Resolution MEPC.1 (II) by which the Committee established on 21   November 1974 a list of substances to be annexed to the Protocol relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Marine Pollution by Substances Other than Oil, in accordance with Resolution 26 of the International Conference on Marine Pollution, 1973, and Resolution A.296 (VIII),

HAVING CONSIDERED proposals by governments for revising the list,

HAVING taken account of scientific advice provided by the Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Pollution (GESAMP) with regard to evaluation of the hazards of harmful substances in the marine environment and by the International Atomic Energy Agency in respect of radioactive materials,

HAVING taken account of technical advice provided by the Sub - Committee on Bulk Chemicals and by the Sub - Committee on the Carriage of Dangerous Goods,

1.   ADOPTS by the required two - thirds majority of the Parties to the 1973 Protocol present and voting in the Committee the amended list which appears in the Annex to this Resolution;

2.   REQUESTS the Secretary - General to communicate the amended list to all Parties to the 1973 Protocol in accordance with article III, paragraph   5, for acceptance, and to inform them that the amended list shall be deemed to have been accepted at the end of the period of six months after it has been communicated, unless within that period an objection to these amendments has been communicated to the Organization by not less than one third of the Parties, and that the amended list shall enter into force three months after it has been deemed to have been accepted;

3.   REQUESTS FURTHER the Secretary - General to annex   copies thereof to the authentic text of the Protocol in accordance with article I, paragraph   2 (a), once the amended list has been accepted in accordance with article III, paragraph   6, to replace the existing list;

4.   DECIDES that the list should be kept under review, in consultation and co - operation with competent international organizations, in particular the International Atomic Energy Agency in respect of radioactive materials.

ANNEX

LIST OF SUBSTANCES

Appendix 1

Oil carried in bulk as listed in appendix I to Annex I of MARPOL 73/78 other

than those covered by the 1969 Intervention Convention

Appendix 2

Noxious liquid substances carried in bulk

Acetone cyanohydrin

Acetic anhydride

Acrylonitrile

Alcohol (C12 - C15) poly (1 - 3) ethoxylates

Alcohol (C12 - C15) poly (3 - 11) ethoxylates

Alcohol (C6 - C17) (secondary) poly (3 - 6) ethoxylates

Alcohol (C6 - C17) (secondary) poly (7 - 12) ethoxylates

Allyl alcohol

Allyl chloride

Ammonium sulphide solution (45% or less)

Aniline

Benzene and mixtures having 10% benzene or more

Benzyl chloride

Butene oligomer

n - Butyl acrylate

Butylbenzenes (all isomers)

Butyl benzyl phthalate

n - Butyraldehyde

Calcium hypochlorite solution (more than 15%)

Calcium naphthenate in mineral oil

Camphor oil

Carbolic oil

Carbon disulphide

Carbon tetrachloride

Chlorinated paraffins (C10 - C13)

Chlorobenzene

Chloroform

o - Chloronitrobenzene

m - Chlorotoluene

o - Chlorotoluene

p - Chlorotoluene

Chlorotoluenes (mixed isomers)

Coal tar

Coal tar naphtha solvent

Cobalt naphthenate in solvent naphtha

Creosote (coal tar)

Creosote (wood)

Cresols (all isomers)

Cresylic acid, sodium salt solution

Crotonaldehyde

Cyclohexyl acetate

1,3 - Cyclopentadiene dimer (molten)

Cyclopentene

Decene

Decyl acrylate

Decyl alcohol (all isomers)

Dibutyl phthalate

Dichlorobenzenes (all isomers)

1,1 - Dichloroethane

Dichloroethyl ether

1,6 - Dichlorohexene

2,4 - Dichlorophenol

2,4 - Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, diethanolamine salt solution

2,4 - Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, dimethylamine salt solution (70% or less)

2,4 - Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, triisopropanolamine salt solution

1,1 - Dichloropropane

1,2 - Dichloropropane

1,3 - Dichloropropane

1,3 - Dichloropropene

Dichloropropene/Dichloropropane mixtures

Diethyl sulphate

Diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A

Diglycidyl ether of bisphenol F

Di - n - hexyl adipate

Diisobutylene

Diisobutyl phthalate

Diisopropylbenzene (all isomers)

Dimethyl adipate

Dimethylamine solution (45% or less)

Dimethylamine solution (greater than 45% but not greater than 55%)

Dimethylamine solution (greater than 55% but not greater than 65%)

Dinitrotoluene (molten)

Diphenyl

Diphenyl/Diphenyl ether mixtures

Diphenyl ether

Diphenyl ether/Diphenyl phenyl ether mixture

Diphenylmethane diisocyanate

Diphenylol propane - epichlorohydrin resins

Dodecene (all isomers)

Dodecyl alcohol

Dodecyl diphenyl ether disulphonate solution

Dodecyl phenol

Drilling brines, containing Zinc salts

Epichlorohydrin

Ethyl acrylate

Ethylene chlorohydrin

Ethylene dibromide

Ethylene dichloride

2 - Ethylhexyl acrylate

2 - Ethylhexylamine

Ethylidene norbornene

o - Ethylphenol

2 - Ethyl - 3 - propylacrolein

Ethyltoluene

Fluorosilicic acid

Fumaric adduct of rosin, water dispersion

Glycidyl ester of C10 trialkylacetic acid

Heptyl acetate

Hexyl acetate

2 - Hydroxyethyl acrylate

Isobutyl acrylate

Isophorone diisocyanate

Isopropylbenzene

Lactonitrile solution (80% or less)

Lauric acid

Mercaptobenzothiazol, sodium salt solution

Metam sodium solution

Methacrylic resin in 1,2 - Dichloroethane solution

Methacrylonitrile

Methyl acrylate

Methylcyclopentadiene dimer

2 - Methyl - 5 - ethyl pyridine

Methyl heptyl ketone

Methylnaphthalene

2 - Methylpyridine

4 - Methylpyridine

N - Methyl - 2 - pyrrolidone

Methyl salicylate

alpha - Methylstyrene

Motor fuel anti - knock compounds

Naphthalene (molten)

Naphthenic acids

Nitrobenzene

o - Nitrophenol (molten)

Nonene

Nonylphenol

Nonylphenol poly (4 - 12) ethoxylates

Octane (all isomers)

Octene (all isomers)

Octyl aldehydes

Octyl nitrates (all isomers)

Olefin mixtures (C5 - C15)

Oleum

alpha - Olefins (C6 - C18) mixtures

Pentachloroethane

Perchloroethylene

Phenol

Phosphorus, yellow or white

Pinene

n - Propyl chloride

Propylene tetramer

Propylene trimer

Rosin

Rosin soap (disproportionated) solution

Sodium hydrosulphide/Ammonium sulphide solution

Sodium hydrosulphide solution (45% or less)

Sodium sulphide solution

Sodium nitrite solution

Sodium thiocyanate solution (56% or less)

Styrene monomer

Tall oil (crude and distilled)

Tall oil soap (disproportionated) solution

Tetrachloroethane

Toluene

Toluene diisocyanate

Tributyl phosphate

1,2,4 - Trichlorobenzene

1,1,1 - Trichloroethane

1,1,2 - Trichloroethane

Trichloroethylene

1,2,3 - Trichloropropane

Tricresyl phosphate (containing less than 1% ortho - isomer)

Tricresyl phosphate (containing 1% or more ortho - isomer)

Triethylbenzene

Trimethyl benzenes (all isomers)

Trimethylhexamethylene diisocyanate (2,2,4 - and 2,4,4 - isomers)

Trixylyl phosphate

Turpentine

1 - Undecene

Undecyl alcohol

Vinylidene chloride

Vinyl neodecanoate

Vinyltoluene

White spirit, low (15 - 20%) aromatic

Xylenol

Appendix 3

Harmful substances carried in packaged form

Substances

Binapacryl

Cadmium compounds, except Cadmium selenide and Cadmium sulphide

Chlorined paraffins (C10 - C13)

Chlorophenates

Copper cyanide

Coumarin derivative pesticides as follows:

Brodifacoum

Coumaphos

Cresyl diphenyl phosphate

Cypermethrin

Diphenylamine chloroarsine

Diphenylchloroarsine

Dodecylphenol

Ethyldichloroarsine

Fenpropathrin

Hexachlorobutadiene

Mercuric arsenate

Mercuric chloride

Mercuric nitrate

Mercuric potassium cyanide

Mercurous nitrate

Mercury acetates

Mercury ammonium chloride

Mercury based pesticides

Mercury benzoate

Mercury bromides

Mercury compounds except Mercuric sulphide and Mercury iodide

Mercury cyanide

Mercury gluconate

Mercury nucleate

Mercury oleate

Mercury oxide

Mercury oxycyanide desensitized

Mercury potassium iodide

Mercury salicylate

Mercury sulphates

Mercury thiocyanate

Nickel cyanide

Nickel carbonyl

Organochlorine pesticides as follows:

Aldrin

Camphechlor

Chlordane

DDT

Dieldrin

Endosulfan

Endrin

Heptachlor

Lindane (gamma - BCH)

Organophosphorus pesticides as follows:

Azinphos - methyl

Azinphos - ethyl

Bromophos - ethyl

Carbophenothion

Chlorpyriphos

Chlorthiophos

Dialifos

Diazinon

Dichlofenthion

Dichlorvos

Dimethoate

EPN Ethion

Fenitrothion

Fenthion

Fonofos

Isoxathion

Mevinphos

Parathion

Parathion - methyl

Pirimiphos ethyl

Phenthoate

Phorate

Phosalone

Phosphamidon

Pyrazophos

Sulprophos

Terbufos

Organotin compounds

Organotin pesticides

Osmium tetroxide

Pentachlorophenol

Phenylmercuric acetate

Phenylmercuric compounds

Phenylmercuric nitrate

Phosphorus, white or yellow

Polychlorinated biphenyls or terphenyls

Polyhalogenated biphenyls or terphenyls

Potassium cuprocyanide

Silver arsenite

Sodium cuprocyanide

Sodium pentachlorophenate

Triaryl phosphates

Tricresyl phosphates, more than 1% ortho - isomer

Zinc cyanide

Appendix 4

Radioactive materials

Radioactive materials which are transported in type B packages, or as fissile materials, or under special arrangement, as covered by the provisions of schedules   10 to 13 of class 7 of the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code.

Appendix 5

Liquefied gases carried in bulk

Acetaldehyde

Anhydrous Ammonia

Chlorine

Dimethylamine

Ethyl chloride

Ethylene oxide

Hydrogen chloride, anhydrous

Hydrogen fluoride, anhydrous

Methyl bromide

Methyl chloride

Sulphur dioxide

Vinyl chloride monomer