"the 1992 Protocol"

means the International Maritime Organisation Protocol of 1992 to amend the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage of 29 November 1969—

(a)	approved on 23 October 1997 by the National Assembly and on 15 March 1999 by the National Council of Provinces as is required by section 231(2) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996; and

(b)	published for general information under Notice No. 1535 of 2009 in Gazette No. 32723 of 20 November 2009;