The Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution) (Law of the Sea Convention) Order 1996
This Order enables regulations to be made implementing provisions in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982 (Cmnd. 8941) relating to pollution of the sea by ships. It enables regulations to be made relating to the protection and preservation of the marine environment from pollution from ships caused beyond the territorial sea of the United Kingdom. Such regulations could, for example, extend the effect of regulations which apply to ships in the territorial sea of the United Kingdom to ships in other waters within which the United Kingdom may exercise jurisdiction over pollution from ships. Regulations may also be made to specify the extent of the United Kingdom’s jurisdiction in this regard.