{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-prevention-of-pollution-by-garbage-regulations-1998/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-prevention-of-pollution-by-garbage-regulations-1998/regulation-6.json",
  "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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Disposal of Garbage within Special Areas",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, the disposal of any garbage from a ship into the sea within any Special Area is prohibited.\n(2) The disposal of food wastes from a ship into the sea within any Special Area except the Antarctic area is permitted if the disposal is made a far as practicable, and in any case not less than 12 miles, from the nearest land.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1377/regulation/6",
    "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."
}