Note: In 2008, the text of the Convention was accessible by means of the Australian Treaties Library on the AustLII website (). Except as provided in paragraph three, the provisions of this Convention shall not apply to warships, naval auxiliary or other ships owned or operated by a State and utilised, for the time getting, only on Government non-industrial service. The shipowner and insurer are normally entitled to limit their liability to an quantity that is linked to the tonnage of the ship.

For a description of the functioning of these agreements see: The International Regime for Compensation for Oil Pollution Harm, Explanatory note ready by the Secretariat of the International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds. The Canada Shipping Act is amended soon after Canada accedes to the 1992 CLC and the 1992 IOPC Fund. Following midnight on 15 May 1998 ahead of a ship calls at a port in a … Read the rest >>>