Singapore legislation

Section 12

of Prevention of Pollution ofthe Sea Act 1990

Section 12

Regulations requiring the keeping of oil record books

(1)

The Authority may, with the approval of the Minister, make regulations requiring oil record books to be carried in all Singapore ships and in all ships in Singapore waters and requiring the master of any such ship to record in the oil record book carried by it —

(a)

the carrying out, on board or in connection with the ship, of such of the following operations as may be prescribed:

(i)

the loading of oil cargo;

(ii)

the internal transfer of oil cargo during a voyage;

(iii)

the unloading of oil cargo;

(iv)

the ballasting of oil tanks (whether cargo or bunker fuel tanks) and dedicated clean ballast tanks;

(v)

the cleaning of oil tanks (whether cargo or bunker fuel tanks) including crude oil washing;

(vi)

the discharge of ballast except from segregated ballast tanks;

(vii)

the discharge of water from slop tanks;

(viii)

the closing of all applicable valves or similar devices after slop tanks discharge operations;

(ix)

the closing of valves necessary for isolation of dedicated clean ballast tanks from cargo and stripping lines after slop tank discharge operations;

(x)

the discharge of dirty ballast or cleaning water from oil fuel tanks;

(xi)

the discharge overboard or disposal otherwise of bilge water, which has accumulated in machinery spaces;

(xii)

the disposal of any oily residues (sludge); or

(xiii)

the disposal of residues;

(b)

any event of such discharge of oil or oily mixture as is mentioned in section 7(2) or any regulations made under section 7(4); and

(c)

in the event of accidental or other exceptional discharge of oil or oily mixture which is not mentioned in section 7(2).

(2)

The Authority may, with the approval of the Minister, make regulations requiring the keeping of records relating to the transfer of oil to and from ships while they are in Singapore waters.

(3)

The requirements of any regulations made under subsection (2) are in addition to the requirements of any regulations made under subsection (1).

(4)

Any records required to be kept by any regulations made under subsection (2) must, unless the ship is a barge, be kept by the master of the ship and must, if the ship is a barge, be kept, insofar as they relate to the transfer of oil to the barge, by the person supplying the oil and, insofar as they relate to the transfer of oil from the barge, by the person to whom the oil is delivered.

(5)

Regulations made under this section requiring the carrying of oil record books or the keeping of records may —

(a)

prescribe the form of the oil record books or records and the nature of the entries to be made in them;

(b)

require the person providing or keeping the oil record books or records to retain them for a prescribed period;

(c)

require that person, at the end of the prescribed period, to transmit the oil record books or records to a place or person determined by the regulations; and

(d)

provide for the custody or disposal of the oil record books or records after their transmission to such a place or person.

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