Statutory Instruments
MERCHANT SHIPPING
Made
8th May 1967
Laid before Parliament
12th May 1967
Coming into Operation
18th May 1967
The Board of Trade in exercise of their powers under section 1(2) of the Oil in Navigable Waters Act 1955 as amended by the Oil in Navigable Waters Act 1963, as having effect by virtue of the Transfer of Functions (Shipping and Construction of Ships) Order 1965(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:-
1. For the purposes of section 1 of the Oil in Navigable Waters Act 1955 as so amended heavy diesel oil shall mean marine diesel oil, other than those distillates of which more than half the volume distils at a temperature not exceeding 340 degrees centigrade when tested by the A.S.T.M. (American Society for Testing and Materials) Standard Method D.86-“66, published in the 1967 Book of A.S.T.M. Standards, Part 17.
2.-(1) The Oil in Navigable Waters (Heavy Diesel Oil) Regulations 1956(2) are hereby revoked.
(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of these Regulations as if these Regulations and the Regulations hereby revoked were Acts of Parliament.
(3) These Regulations may be cited as the Oil in Navigable Waters (Heavy Diesel Oil) Regulations 1967 and shall come into operation on 18th May 1967.
J. P. W. Mallalieu
Minister of State
Board of Trade
8th May 1967
These Regulations, which come into force on 18th May 1967 define heavy, diesel oil for the purposes of section 1 of the Oil in Navigable Waters Act 1955. This definition replaces that in the Oil in Navigable Waters (Heavy Diesel Oil) Regulations 1956 (S.I. 1956/897) which are revoked. The only change is the substitution in the definition of reference to a 1966 Standard Method of test in place of the Standard Method of 1954 specified in the 1956 Regulations.
Copies of the 1967 Book of A.S.T.M. Standards can be consulted at the National Reference Library of Science and Invention (Holborn Division), 25 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.2., or at the British Standards Institution, 2 Park Street, London, W.1.
(1965 I, p. 438)
(1956 I, p. 1197).