You can commit an offence if you are the master or owner of a ship, owner of an offshore installation, or owner of an oil transfer site. You must follow the rules in section 313 about marine oil spill contingency plans for your ship, installation, or site. If you do not follow these rules without a good reason, you can get in trouble.

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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).