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PROTECTION OF THE SEA (OIL POLLUTION COMPENSATION FUNDS) ACT 1993 - SECT 31

Certain provisions of the 1992 Convention to have the force of law

  (1)   The following provisions of the 1992 Convention have the force of law as part of the law of the Commonwealth:

Articles 1, 3, 4 and 6, paragraphs 1, 3, 5 and 6 of Article 7, Article 9, Article 35, Article 36 bis, paragraph   ( e) of Article 36 quater and Article 36 quinquies.

  (2)   For the purposes of paragraph   7 of Article 4 of the 1992 Convention as so having the force of law, a request by the Authority is taken to be a request by Australia .



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