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Maritime Transport Act 1994

Plans and responses to protect marine environment from marine oil spills - Miscellaneous provisions relating to responses to marine oil spills

325: Director may review responses

You could also call this:

"The Director checks how well oil spills at sea were cleaned up to improve future responses."

The Director can look at how a marine oil spill response was carried out. You can think of this like a review to see what went well and what didn't. The Director can do this within 2 years of the response happening, to help make future responses better.

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Part 23Plans and responses to protect marine environment from marine oil spills
Miscellaneous provisions relating to responses to marine oil spills

325Director may review responses

  1. The Director may, at any time within 2 years of a marine oil spill response being carried out, review that response with a view to improving such responses in the future rather than assigning blame to any person for any errors or omissions with respect to that response.