The Merchant Shipping (Port Waste Reception Facilities) Regulations 1997

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

• “adequate” means, in relation to waste reception facilities for prescribed waste from ships, adequate to receive prescribed waste from ships using the harbour or terminal in question without causing undue delay to, and according to the needs of, those ships;

• “harmful substances in packaged form” means those substances which are identified as marine pollutants in the IMDG Code and which are in the form of containment specified in the schedules of that Code;

• “the IMDG Code” means the 1994 edition of the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code published by the International Maritime Organisation, as amended from time to time by any document which is considered by the Secretary of State to be relevant and is specified in a Merchant Shipping Notice;

• “garbage” means all kinds of victual, domestic and operational waste excluding fresh fish and parts thereof, generated during the normal operation of the ship and liable to be disposed of continuously or periodically except sewage originating from ships;

• “Merchant Shipping Notice” means a Notice described as such and issued by the Secretary of State; and any reference to a particular Merchant Shipping Notice includes a reference to any document amending or replacing that Notice which is considered by the Secretary of State to be relevant from time to time and is specified in a Merchant Shipping Notice;

• “noxious liquid substances” and “non-polluting liquid substances” have the meanings respectively given to them in the Merchant Shipping (Dangerous or Noxious Liquid Substances in Bulk) Regulations 1996(1);

• “oil” and “oily mixtures” have the meanings respectively given to them in the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Oil Pollution) Regulations 1996(2);

• “operational waste” means all maintenance wastes, cargo associated wastes and cargo residues except residues or wastes from oil or oily mixtures, noxious liquid substances, non-polluting liquid substances or harmful substances in packaged form;

• “prescribed wastes” means any waste of the following descriptions:

  (a)

  garbage;

  (b)

  oil and oily mixtures; and

  (c)

  noxious liquid substances.

(2) Any approval given pursuant to these Regulations shall be given in writing and shall specify the conditions (if any) on which it is given.

(1)

S.I. 1996/3010.

(2)

S.I. 1996/2154.