Section 12
Amendment of section 7
of Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) (Amendment) Act 2011
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Section 12
Section 7 of the principal Act is amended by substituting for subsection (1) the following subsection:
“(1) Where the owner of a ship has or is alleged to have incurred a liability—
(a)
under section 3, he may apply to the Court for the limitation of that liability to an amount determined in accordance with section 6; or
(b)
under section 3A, he may apply to the Court for the limitation of that liability to an amount determined in accordance with section 6A.".