{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dumping-at-sea-act-1974-overseas-territories-order-1975/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dumping-at-sea-act-1974-overseas-territories-order-1975/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1975/1831",
  "legislation_title": "The Dumping at Sea Act 1974 (Overseas Territories) Order 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dumping-at-sea-act-1974-overseas-territories-order-1975",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Order extends the provisions of the Dumping at Sea Act 1974, subject to exceptions, adaptations and modifications, to the territories specified in Schedule 2 thereto and to the Solomon Islands.\nThe purposes of the Act were to give effect to the Convention on the Dumping of Wastes at Sea (Cmnd. 5169) opened for signature at London on 29 December 1972; and for connected purposes.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/1831/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:54:16.548367+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}