{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-prevention-of-pollution-by-garbage-from-ships-regulations-2020/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-prevention-of-pollution-by-garbage-from-ships-regulations-2020/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/621",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution by Garbage from Ships) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-prevention-of-pollution-by-garbage-from-ships-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Garbage record keeping",
  "text": "(1) This regulation and regulation 13 (entries in garbage record books) apply to a ship which—\n(a) is of 100 GT or above;\n(b) carries 15 or more persons and is engaged in voyages to ports or offshore terminals under the jurisdiction of a party to the Convention other than the ship’s flag State; or\n(c) is a fixed or floating platform.\n(2) A ship to which this regulation applies must be provided with a garbage record book in—\n(a) the format specified in regulation 10.3 of Annex V (garbage record books); and\n(b) the form specified in Appendix II to Annex V (form of garbage record book).\n(3) The garbage record book and receipts obtained from reception facilities must be—\n(a) kept on board the ship to which they relate and in such a place as to be readily available for inspection at all reasonable times; and\n(b) preserved for a period of at least two years after the last entry has been made.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 12(1)(a) substituted (23.5.2024) by The Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution by Garbage from Ships) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/570), regs. 1(1), 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 12 in force at 22.7.2020, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/621/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:29:14.694423+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."
}