To amend the Merchant Shipping Act, 1951, so as to insert certain definitions, to amend others and to delete others; to further regulate occupational safety in relation to vessels; to further regulate the powers of certain officers and courts; to delete or replace certain obsolete expressions and references; to further regulate the reporting of and investigation into casualties and accidents on vessels; to further regulate the making of regulations by the Minister of Transport; to emend the text; and to repeal the Third, Fourth and Sixth Schedules to the said Act; to amend the Marine Traffic Act, 1981, so as to insert two definitions, amend one and replace ten; to provide anew for offences in respect of offshore installations; to empower the said Minister to determine safety zones for certain offshore installations; to delete certain obsolete expressions; to make other provision in respect of certain penalties; to further regulate the making of regulations by the said Minister; to make other provision in relation to court jurisdiction; and to extend the application of the said Act to the Prince Edward Islands; to amend the Prevention and Combating of Pollution of the Sea by Oil Act, 1981, so as to insert certain definitions, to amend others, and to delete others; to make other provision for the control of operational discharges of oil and oily mixtures from ships and offshore installations; to extend certain powers and functions in relation to the prevention and combating of pollution of the sea by oil to other harmful substances; to make other provision in relation to court jurisdiction; to further regulate the making of regulations by the said Minister; to increase the maximum amount of fines that may be imposed for a contravention of the said Act; to extend the application of the said Act to the Prince Edward Islands; and to replace certain obsolete expressions and references; to amend the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act,
1986, so as to give effect to the Protocol of 1979 to amend the International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law Relating to Bills of Lading 1924, as amended by the Protocol of 1968; and to extend the application of the said Act to the Prince Edward Islands; to amend the International Convention Relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Oil Pollution Casualties Act, 1987, so as to insert a certain definition, to amend another and to delete another; to give effect to the Protocol Relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Marine Pollution by Substances Other than Oil 1973, as amended by MEPC.49(31); to regulate anew the application and interpretation of the International Convention Relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Oil Pollution Casualties 1969 and the said Protocol; to regulate anew the making of regulations by the said Minister; to increase the maximum penalties for which may be provided by regulation; to make other provision in relation to court jurisdiction; and to extend the application of the said Act to the Prince Edward Islands; and to amend the Maritime Zones Act, 1994, so as to amend a certain definition; and to provide for matters connected therewith.