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Article VI 



The penalties which may be imposed in pursuance of Article III 

 under the law of any of the territories of a Contracting Government 

 in respect of the unlawful discharge from a ship of oil or of an oily 

 mixture into waters outside the territorial waters of that territory 

 shall not be less than the penalties which may be imposed under the 

 law of that territory in respect of the unlawful discharge of oil or of 

 an oily mixture from a ship into such territorial waters. 



Article VII 



As from a date twelve months after the present Convention comes 

 into force in respect of any of the territories of a Contracting Gov- 

 ernment all ships registered in that territory shall be required to be so 

 fitted as to prevent the escape of fuel oil or heavy diesel oil into bilges 

 the contents of which are discharged into the sea without being passed 

 through an oily-water separator. 



Article VIII 



As from a date three years after the present Convention comes into 

 force in respect of any of the territories of a Contracting Govern- 

 ment, that Government shall ensure the provision in each main port 

 in that territory of facilities adequate for the reception, without caus- 

 ing undue delay to ships, of such residues from oily ballast water and 

 tank washings as would remain for disposal by ships, other than 

 tankers, using the port, if the water had been separated by the use 

 of an oily-water separator, a settling tank or otherwise. Each Con-- 

 tracting Government shall from time to time determine which ports 

 are the main ports in its territories for the purposes of this Article, 

 and shall notify the Bureau in writing accordingly indicating 

 whether adequate reception facilities have been installed. 



Article IX 



(1) There shall be carried in every ship to which the Convention 

 applies an oil record book (whether as part of the ship's official log- 

 book or otherwise) in the form specified in Annex B to the present 

 Convention. The appropriate entries shall be made in that book, 

 and each page of the book, including any statement under paragraph 

 (2) of Article IV, shall be signed by the officer or officers in charge of 

 the operations concerned and by the master of the ship. The written 

 entries in the oil record book shall be in an official lan^age of the 

 territory in which the ship is registered, or in English or French. 



(2) The competent authorities of any of the territories of a Con- 

 tracting Government may inspect on board any such ship while within 

 a port in that territory the oil record book required to be carried in the 

 ship in compliance with the provisions of the Convention, and may 



