If you are in charge of a ship, an offshore installation, or an oil transfer site, you must follow the rules. You have to make sure you have a plan to deal with oil spills, as stated in section 313. If you do not follow this rule without a good reason, you can get in trouble with the law.

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313: Compliance with marine oil spill contingency plans, or

"Follow the plan to clean up oil spills in the sea"

315: Offences in respect of notification of inability to contain and clean up marine oil spills, or

"Breaking the law by not reporting you can't stop or clean up an oil spill at sea"

Part 23Plans and responses to protect marine environment from marine oil spills
Obligations and offences in respect of marine oil spill contingency plans

314Offences in respect of marine oil spill contingency plans

The master and the owner of a ship, the owner of an offshore installation, and the owner of an oil transfer site, each commits an offence if there has been without reasonable excuse, in respect of that ship, offshore installation, or oil transfer site, as the case may be, a breach of the duty under section 313 (in respect of compliance with shipboard or site marine oil spill contingency plans).