On 22/05/2013,
you requested for the version in force on 22/05/2013
incorporating all amendments published on or before 22/05/2013.
The closest version currently available is that of 30/12/1999.
Recovery of costs for removing refuse, garbage, wastes, plastics, effluents and dangerous pollutants discharged from ships
17.
—(1) If any refuse, garbage, waste matter, plastics, marine pollutant in packaged form or trade effluent is discharged from any ship into Singapore waters or into any part of the sea or waters outside Singapore waters and the refuse, garbage, waste matter, plastics, marine pollutant or trade effluent subsequently drifts or flows into Singapore waters, the owner of the ship shall be liable to pay for the costs of any measure reasonably taken by the appointed authority after the discharge for the purpose of removing it and for preventing or reducing any damage caused in Singapore by contamination resulting from the discharge.
(2) Where the refuse, garbage, waste matter, plastics, marine pollutant in packaged form or trade effluent is discharged from 2 or more ships —
(a)
a liability is incurred under this section by the owner of each of them; but
(b)
the damage or cost of which each of the owners would be liable cannot reasonably be separated from that for which the other or others would be liable,
each of the owners shall be liable, jointly and severally with the other or others, for the whole of the damage or cost for which the owners together would be liable under this section.