24.1 The second sentence of regulation 14.1 should be interpreted
as follows:
Any ship of 400 gross tonnage and above but less than 10,000
gross tonnage:
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.1 which does not carry water ballast in oil fuel
tanks should be fitted with 15 ppm oil filtering equipment for the
control of discharge of machinery space bilges;
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.2 which carries water ballast in oil fuel tanks
should be fitted with the equipment required by regulation 14.2 for the control
of machinery space bilges and dirty ballast water from oil fuel tanks.
Ships on which it is not reasonable to fit this equipment should retain
on board dirty ballast water from oil fuel tanks and discharge it
to reception facilities.
24.2 The above equipment should be of adequate
capacity to deal with the quantities of effluent to be discharged.