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Marginal note:Oil fuel tank

• 16 (1) Oil fuel tanks on Category A and B vessels that were constructed on or after January 1, 2017 and have an aggregate oil fuel capacity of less than 600 m³, other than oil fuel tanks with a maximum individual capacity of 30 m³ or less, must be separated from the outer shell of the vessel by a distance of at least 0.76 m.

• Marginal note:Cargo tank — vessels other than oil tankers

  (2) Cargo tanks used to carry oil on Category A and B vessels constructed on or after January 1, 2017, other than oil tankers, must be separated from the outer shell of the vessel by a distance of at least 0.76 m.

• Marginal note:Cargo tank — oil tankers

  (3) Subject to subsection (4), cargo tanks on Category A and B oil tankers constructed on or after January 1, 2017, that are of less than 5 000 metric tonnes deadweight, must be protected the length of the tank with

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• Marginal note:Exception

  (4) An oil tanker that is a Canadian vessel of less than 5 000 metric tonnes deadweight that does not have mechanical means of propulsion and engages only on voyages in waters under Canadian jurisdiction within 40 nautical miles from the nearest land is not required to comply with paragraph (3)(a) if the height of its double bottom is, in no location, less than the width calculated for its wing tanks in accordance with the formula in regulation 19.6.2 of Annex I to MARPOL.

• Marginal note:Oil residue tanks and oily bilge water holding tanks

  (5) Oil residue tanks and oily bilge water holding tanks on Category A and B vessels constructed on or after January 1, 2017, other than oil fuel tanks with a maximum individual capacity of 30 m³ or less, must be separated from the outer shell of the vessel by a distance of at least 0.76 m.

Marginal note:Operations in polar waters

15 Operations in polar waters must be taken into account in the Oil Records Books, the manuals, the shipboard oil pollution emergency plan, and the shipboard marine pollution emergency plan when they are required to be carried by a vessel under the Vessel Pollution and Dangerous Chemicals Regulations.

Prevention of Pollution by Oil

14 For the purposes of subsection 4(1) of the Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act, waste may be deposited if

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• (c) in the case of oil, the deposit is a minimal and unavoidable leakage that occurs as a result of the operation of an underwater machinery component;