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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-prevention-of-pollution-by-garbage-regulations-1998/regulation-16",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1377",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution by Garbage) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-prevention-of-pollution-by-garbage-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Power to Detain",
  "text": "Where the steps taken by an inspector under regulation 12(3) involve detention of the ship, section 284(1)—(6) and (8) of the Act (which relates to the detention of a ship) shall have effect in relation to that ship, as if for the words “this Act” wherever they appear there were substituted the words “the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution by Garbage) Regulations 1998.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1377/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:27:51.914453+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."
}