ELIZABETH II c. 8 Merchant Shipping (Pollution) Act 2006 2006 CHAPTER 8 An Act to enable effect to be given to the Supplementary Fund Protocol 2003 and to future revisions of the international arrangements relating to compensation for oil pollution from ships; to enable effect to be given to Annex VI of the MARPOL Convention; and to amend section 178(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995. [30th March 2006] E IT ENACTED by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:— 1 Power to give effect to revisions of the international arrangements relating to compensation for oil pollution from ships (1) In this section— (a) “the Supplementary Fund Protocol” means the Protocol of 2003 to the Fund Convention (which among other things establishes the Supplementary Fund for pollution damage claims and provides for contributions to, and payments...