To provide for the protection of the sea from pollution by oil and other harmful substances discharged from ships, and for that purpose to give effect to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as amended by the Protocol of 1978; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

(English text signed by the State President)

(Assented to 4 March 1986)

BE IT ENACTED by the State President and the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:—

[Long title substituted by section 9 of Act No. 66 of 1996]