{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-reception-facilities-for-garbage-regulations-1988/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-reception-facilities-for-garbage-regulations-1988/regulation-6.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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Penalties",
  "text": "Any harbour authority or terminal operator which fails to comply with any direction given under regulation 3(3) or 4 above within the period specified in the direction, or within any extended period allowed by the Secretary of State (whether before or after the end of the period so specified), shall be guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.",
  "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/6",
    "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."
}