Marine Pollution (Prevention of Pollution from Ships) Act, 1986 (Act No. 2 of 1986)

In these regulations—

"adequate"

in relation to reception facilities for garbage from ships, means adequate to receive garbage from ships using the port or terminal concerned without causing undue delay to, and according to the needs of, those ships;

"harbour"

means a harbour, port, roadstead, estuary, haven, dock, or other place used by ships but does not include a terminal;

"harbour authority"

means a person or body having, for the time being, the management of a harbour in the Republic;

"operational wastes"

includes all maintenance wastes, cargo-associated wastes and cargo residues except residues or wastes from substances which are defined or listed in other Annexes to the present Convention;

"reception facilities"

means facilities into which ships may discharge garbage;

"terminal"

means a terminal, jetty, pier, wharf or mono-buoy used by ships which is within a harbour but is managed by a person or body of persons other than the harbour authority for that harbour;

"terminal operator"

means a person or body of persons having, for the time being, the management of a terminal.