{"id":11663,"date":"2014-04-15T06:12:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T06:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.14\/index.php\/2014\/04\/15\/singapore-criminal-prosecution\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T01:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T17:20:29","slug":"singapore-criminal-prosecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/singapore-criminal-prosecution\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminal prosecution for environmental offences"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">In February 2002, Meridian Petroleum had its licences cancelled as a bunker supplier, for supplying contaminated fuel and because of plans to prosecute it for breach of anti-pollution laws. Meridian failed to comply with the legal requirements for bunker barges and tankers. This crackdown on errant bunkers follows a recent trend in Singapore and the owners and masters of the vessels are to be charged with contravention of the Prevention of Pollution of the Sea Act for failing to maintain oil record books as required.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">In July 1998, the master of the VLCC Orapin Global pleaded guilty to charges of negligence and speeding in connection with an oil spill resulting from a collision. The master was fined and sentenced to two months in jail. The master of the other vessel was charged with breach of duty and failing to take action to avoid the collision. He also admitted to failing to keep a proper lookout and was fined and sentenced to three months in jail.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">08 Jul 2004<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February 2002, Meridian Petroleum had its licences cancelled as a bunker supplier, for supplying contaminated fuel and because of plans to prosecute it for breach of anti-pollution laws. Meridian failed to comply with the legal requirements for bunker barges and tankers. This crackdown on errant bunkers follows a recent trend in Singapore and the [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[125],"class_list":["post-11663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-information","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19452,"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663\/revisions\/19452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}