{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-prevention-of-pollution-by-garbage-from-ships-regulations-2020/regulation-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-prevention-of-pollution-by-garbage-from-ships-regulations-2020/regulation-22.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/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Defences",
  "text": "(1) In any proceedings for an offence under these Regulations, it is a defence for the person charged to prove that they took all reasonable steps and exercised all due diligence to ensure that the regulation in question was complied with.\n(2) Without prejudice to paragraph (1), in any proceedings for an offence under regulation 21(1)(a) or (c) (offences) it is a defence for the person charged to prove that—\n(a) the ship was not a United Kingdom ship;\n(b) the discharge took place in waters that were not United Kingdom waters or controlled waters; and\n(c) the ship was in a port in the United Kingdom at the time of the institution of the proceedings by reason only of stress of weather or any other reason beyond the control of the owner, manager, demise charterer or master of the ship.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 22 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/22",
    "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."
}