13. Recovery of costs for removing refuse, etc.
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If any refuse, garbage, waste matter, substance of a dangerous or obnoxious nature or trade effluent is discharged or escapes from a vessel, the owner of the vessel shall be liable for the costs of any measure reasonably taken after the discharge or escape for the purpose of removing it and for preventing or reducing any damage caused in Singapore by contamination resulting from the discharge or escape.
substance of a dangerous or obnoxious nature
“substance of a dangerous or obnoxious nature” includes any substance which the Minister may, by notification published in the Gazette, declare to be deemed to be a substance of a dangerous or obnoxious nature, as the case may be, for the purposes of this Act;
Where the refuse, garbage, waste matter, substance of a dangerous or other obnoxious nature or trade effluent is discharged or escapes from two or more ships —
trade effluent
“trade effluent” means the solid or liquid waste of any trade, business or manufacture;
the liability is incurred under this section by the owner of each of them; but(b)the damage or cost of which each of the owners would be liable cannot reasonably be separated from that for which the other or others would be liable,each of the owners shall be liable, jointly and severally with the other or others, for the whole of the damage or cost for which the owners together would be liable under this section.