{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-prevention-of-pollution-by-garbage-from-ships-amendment-regulations-2024/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-prevention-of-pollution-by-garbage-from-ships-amendment-regulations-2024/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/570",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution by Garbage from Ships) (Amendment) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-prevention-of-pollution-by-garbage-from-ships-amendment-regulations-2024",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Marine Pollution\nMerchant Shipping\nMade 30th April 2024\nLaid before Parliament 1st May 2024\nComing into force 23rd May 2024\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by articles 4, 5 and 6 of the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution by Sewage and Garbage) Order 2006, articles 2(1), (2)(a) to (g), (3) and 3 of the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution) (Law of the Sea Convention) Order 1996 and sections 128(5) and (6) and 302(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, and with the consent of the Treasury, makes the following Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/2950, to which there is an amendment not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/282, amended by the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23), Schedule 4, Part 1, paragraphs 3(1) to (3), S.I. 2022/844 and S.I. 2015/664."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1995 c. 21, amended by the Merchant Shipping (Pollution) Act 2006 (c. 8), section 2. There are amendments to section 128 which are not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/570/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:30:15.319560+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."
}