Oil in Navigable Waters Act 1955
WHEREAS a Convention entitled "The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution of the Sea by Oil, 1954" (in this Act referred to as "the Convention of 1954") was signed on behalf of Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom in London on the twelfth day of May, nineteen hundred and fifty-four: And whereas it is expedient to enable effect to be given to that Convention, and otherwise to make new provision for preventing the pollution of navigable waters by oil: Be it therefore...