{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-reception-facilities-for-garbage-regulations-1988/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-reception-facilities-for-garbage-regulations-1988/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/2293",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Reception Facilities for Garbage) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-reception-facilities-for-garbage-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Use of reception facilities",
  "text": "(1) A harbour authority or terminal operator providing reception facilities for garbage from ships, or a person providing such facilities by arrangement with a harbour authority or terminal operator, may make reasonable charges for the use of those facilities, and may impose reasonable conditions in respect of the use thereof.\n(2) Any such reception facilities provided by, or by arrangement with, a harbour authority or terminal operator shall, on payment of charges, and subject to any conditions imposed in accordance with paragraph (1), be open to all vessels which in the opinion of the harbour authority or terminal operator (as appropriate) are using the harbour or terminal for a primary purpose other than utilising the reception facilities.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/2293/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:51:46.859537+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."
}