
1 
This Order may be cited as the Prevention of Oil Pollution (Shipping Casualties) (Overseas Territories) Order 1982 and shall come into operation on 31st December 1982.
2 
Subject to the exceptions, adaptations and modifications in Article 3 of this Order, sections 12 to 15 of the Prevention of Oil Pollution Act 1971 as extended by the Prevention of Oil Pollution Act 1971 (Overseas Territories) Order 1982 to each of the territories, any one of which is in this Order referred to as “the Territory”, specified in the Schedule to this Order shall apply to a ship—

(a) which is not a ship registered in the Territory; and
(b) which is for the time being outside the territorial waters of the Territory;

in any case where the Governor, High Commissioner, Civil Commissioner or Administrator as the case may be is satisfied that there is a need to protect the coast of the Territory or the waters in or adjacent to the Territory up to the seaward limits of territorial waters against grave and imminent danger of oil pollution.
3 
In respect of a ship to which the said sections 12 to 15 are applied by Article 2 of this Order the power conferred on the Governor, High Commissioner, Civil Commissioner or Administrator as the case may be by subsection (2) of section 12 to give directions shall only be exercisable in relation to—
(a) an individual who is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies; or
(b) a body corporate which is established under the laws of the Territory
and subsection (2) of section 14 shall only apply to such an individual or body corporate.
N.E. Leigh
Clerk of the Privy Council

SCHEDULE
Article 2


 Anguilla
 British Antarctic Territory
 British Virgin Islands
 Cayman Islands
 Falkland Islands and Dependencies
 Montserrat
 Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands
 Saint Helena and Dependencies
 Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia
 Turks and Caicos Islands
