- Laws of Fiji

[MAT 42,615] Oil filtering equipment123

123

(1) These Regulations apply to all ships of 400 gross tonnage or more.

(2) Except as provided in regulation 124, the owner shall ensure that every ship is fitted with oil filtering equipment that is—

(a)approved by the Chief Executive Officer; and
(b)designed so as to ensure that any oily mixture, which is discharged into the sea after passing through the system, has an oil content not exceeding 15 parts per million.

(3) If a ship is of 10,000 gross tonnage and more or remains at sea for extended periods and empty oil fuel tanks are filled with water ballast in order to maintain sufficient stability and safe navigation conditions, the owner shall ensure that the ship’s oil filtering equipment is provided with—

(a)an alarm to indicate; and
(b)arrangements to ensure that any discharge of oily mixtures is stopped automatically, when the oil content of the outflow exceeds 15 parts per million.

(4) The Chief Executive Officer may, for the purposes of subregulation (2), approve oil filtering equipment having regard to the guidelines and specifications, for pollution prevention equipment for machinery space bilges of ships, adopted by the IMO in—

(a)Resolution MEPC.60(33), for equipment installed on board before 1 January 2005; and
(b)Resolution MEPC.107(49), for equipment installed on board on or after 1 January 2005.

(5) The Chief Executive Officer may for ships of less than 400 gross tonnage approve the following arrangement—

(a)an oil filtering equipment required in subregulation (2); or
(b)a holding tank with sufficient capacity to retain onboard oily mixtures and oil residues for the ship’s operational needs or other practical arrangements that will allow ships to retain onboard oily mixtures and oil residues that is to be pumped ashore to reception facilities.