Malaysia legislation
Section 14
Section 14
(2)
In relation to a ship owned by a State and for the time being used for commercial purposes—
(a)
it shall be sufficient compliance with subsection 11(2) if there is in force a certificate issued by the appropriate authority of that State and showing that the ship is owned by that State and that any liability for pollution damage as defined in Article 1 of the Liability Convention will be met up to the limit prescribed by Article V of that Convention; or
(b)
it shall be sufficient compliance with subsection 11A(2) if there is in force a certificate issued by the appropriate authority of that State and showing that the ship is owned by that State and that any liability for pollution damage as defined in Article 1 of the Bunkers Convention will be met up to the limits set out in Chapter II of the Convention on
Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims 1976 as amended by the Protocol of 1996 to amend the Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims 1976, and as set out in the Sixteenth Schedule of the Merchant Shipping
Ordinance 1952.
(3)
Every State which is a party to the Liability Convention or
Bunkers Convention shall, for the purposes of any proceedings instituted in a Court in Malaysia to enforce a claim in respect of a liability incurred under section 3 or 3A, respectively, be deemed to have submitted to the jurisdiction of that Court, but nothing in this subsection shall authorize the issue of execution against the property of any State.
Merchant Shipping (Liability and 25
Compensation for Oil and Bunker Oil Pollution)