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Enforced by: OPRED
Status: In Force
Penalty ceiling: Prosecution 2 of 4 obligations carry an unlimited fine. 2 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Occupier2 Any Person1

Plus 1 duty on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.

Other Acts binding the same actors

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Occupier — also bound by 246 other Acts

The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 47 duties

Avian Influenza and Influenza of Avian Origin in Mammals (England) (No. 2) Order 2006 46 duties

The Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Regulations 1995 34 duties

Highways Act 1980 23 duties

Nitrate Pollution Prevention Regulations 2015 19 duties

Any Person — also bound by 2684 other Acts

Human Medicines Regulations 2012 184 duties

Merchant Shipping Act 1995 144 duties

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 104 duties

Communications Act 2003 92 duties

Road Traffic Act 1988 92 duties

What it requires

Sections creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

s.002 Discharge of oil into United Kingdom waters. Prosecution

Discharge oil into UK watersOccupier

Unlimited fine

s.003 Discharge of certain oils from pipe-lines or as the result of exploration Prosecution

Discharge oil into the sea from a pipeline or offshore operationsAny Person

Unlimited fine

s.011 Duty to report discharge of oil into waters of harbours. Regulated

Report oil escaping from your land into harbour waters to the harbour masterOccupier

s.026 Annual report. Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Secretary of State must report annually on oil pollution prevention functionsCrown / Minister / Government department

32 other provisions — procedural and definitional

s.001 Discharge of certain oils into sea outside territorial waters.

s.004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

s.005 Defences of owner or master charged with offence under s. 1 or s. 2.

s.006 Defences of other persons charged with offences under s. 2 or s. 3.

s.007 Protection of acts done in exercise of certain powers of harbour authorities etc.

s.008 Discharge of certain ballast water into harbours.

s.009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

s.010 Restrictions on transfer of oil at night.

s.011 Certain provisions not to apply where a discharge or escape is authorised under Part I of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

s.012 Shipping casualties.

s.013 Right to recover in respect of unreasonable loss or damage.

s.014 Offences in relation to s. 12.

s.015 Service of directions under s. 12.

s.016 Application of ss. 12 to 15 to certain foreign and other ships.

s.017 Oil records.

s.018 Powers of inspection.

s.019 Prosecutions.

s.019 Power to detain vessels.

s.020 Enforcement and application of fines.

s.021 Enforcement of Conventions relating to oil pollution.

s.022 Power to apply certain provisions to ships registered outside United Kingdom.

s.023 Power of Secretary of State to grant exemptions.

s.024 Application of Act to Government ships.

s.025 Provisions as to Isle of Man, Channel Islands, colonies and dependencies.

s.027 General provisions as to Orders in Council, regulations and orders.

s.028 Financial provisions.

s.029 Interpretation.

s.030 Provisions as to Northern Ireland.

s.031 Application to hovercraft.

s.032 Saving for other restrictions, rights of action etc.

s.033 Repeals and savings.

s.034 Short title and commencement.

Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.

Prevention of Oil Pollution Act 1971

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