LAWS OF THE REPUBLIC OF VANUATU
CONSOLIDATED EDITION 2006

Commencement: 25 November 1982

CHAPTER 155
MARITIME (CONVENTIONS)

Act 29 of 1982
Act 29 of 1984
Act 17 of 1988
Act 36 of 2003

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1.	Scheduled Conventions

SCHEDULE

MARITIME (CONVENTIONS)

To provide for the application in Vanuatu of certain international maritime conventions.

1. Scheduled Conventions

(1) The provisions of any of the Scheduled Conventions to which Vanuatu has acceded shall have the force of law in Vanuatu from the day that accession thereto shall take effect.

(2) Where the provisions of any of the Scheduled Conventions to which Vanuatu has acceded conflict with the provisions of any other Act, the provisions of the Scheduled Convention shall prevail.

(3) For the purposes of this section, "Scheduled Conventions" means the Conventions specified in the Schedule.

SCHEDULE

SCHEDULED CONVENTIONS

Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972;

International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974;

Protocol of 1978, relating to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea;

International Convention on Load Lines, 1966;

International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, 1969;

International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution of the Sea by Oil, 1954;

International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 (MARPOL 73);

Protocol of 1978 Relating to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973;

Regulations for the Prevention of Pollution by Oil;

Guidelines for Surveys Order Annex 1 of MARPOL 73/78;

Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972, as amended (COLREG 1972);

International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships, 1969 (Tonnage 69);

Athens Convention Relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea, 1974 (PAL 74);

Protocol to the Athens Convention Relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea, 1974; 

Convention on Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic, 1965 (FAL 1965);

Protocol of 1976 to the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, 1969;

International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage, 1971 (FUND 1971);

1976 and 1984 Protocols Relating to the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage, 1971;

Agreement on the International Dolphin Conservation Program 1998.

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Table of Amendments (since the Revised Edition 1988)

Sched Amended by Acts 17 of 1988, 36 of 2003