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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dumping-at-sea-act-1974-overseas-territories-order-1975/schedule-1/paragraph-12",
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  "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": "schedule/1/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“British aircraft” means an aircraft registered in the United Kingdom or in any Territory;\n“British hovercraft” means a hovercraft registered in the United Kingdom or which is owned by an individual resident in or a body corporate incorporated under the law of any Territory;\n“British marine structure” means a marine structure owned by or leased to an individual resident in or a body corporate incorporated under the law of any part of the United Kingdom or of any Territory;\n“British ship” means a vessel registered under the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 in the United Kingdom or in any Territory, or a vessel exempted from such registration;\n“captain”, in relation to a hovercraft, means the person who is designated by the operator to be in charge of it during any journey, or, failing such designation, the person who is for the time being lawfully in charge of it;\n“commander”, in relation to an aircraft, means the member of the flight crew designated as commander of that aircraft by the operator thereof, or, failing such a person, the person who is for the time being the pilot in command of the aircraft;\n“Convention” includes an agreement or other arrangement;\n“Convention State”, in relation to the London Convention, the Oslo Convention or a designated Convention, means a State declared to be a party to that Convention by an order for the time being in force in the United Kingdom made under section 12(3)(b) of this Act as in force in the United Kingdom;\n“designated Convention” means a Convention declared to be a designated Convention by an order for the time being in force in the United Kingdom made under section 12(3)(a) of this Act as in force in the United Kingdom;\n“dumping” has the meaning assigned to it by section 1 above;\n“foreign enforcement officer” has the meaning assigned to it by section 6(2) above;\n“Governor”, in relation to any Territory, means the officer for the time being administering the Government of that Territory or any person whom the Governor may by order designate to perform such of the Governor's functions under this Act as may be specified in such order;\n“harbour authority” has the meaning assigned to it by section 742 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894;\n“hovercraft” means a vehicle which is designed to be supported when in motion wholly or partly by air expelled from the vehicle to form a cushion of which the boundaries include the ground, water or other surface beneath the vehicle;\n“international organisations” means any organisation established in pursuance of Article XIV of the London Convention or Article 16 of the Oslo Convention and any similar organisation established in pursuance of a designated Convention;\n“lighthouse authority” means a local lighthouse authority or a general lighthouse authority within the meaning of section 634 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 or a harbour authority;\n“load” means load for dumping;\n“local enforcement officer” has the meaning assigned to it by section 5(2) above;\n“the London Convention” means the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter concluded at London in December 1972;\n“marine structure” means a platform or other man-made structure at sea;\n“master”, in relation to any ship, includes the person for the time being in charge of the ship;\n“the Oslo Convention” means the Convention for the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping from Ships and Aircraft concluded at Oslo in February 1972;\n“sea” includes any area submerged at mean high water springs, and also includes, so far as the tide flows at mean high water springs, an estuary or an arm of the sea and the waters of any channel, creek, bay, lagoon or river; and\n“territorial waters” means any part of the sea within the seaward limits of the territorial waters of the Territory.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1984/452",
      "affecting_title": "The Workmen's Compensation (Supplementation) (Amendment) Scheme 1984"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/1831/schedule/1/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:54:16.548367+00:00"
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}