CANADA SHIPPING ACT

Garbage Pollution Prevention Regulations

CRC, Vol. XV, c. 1424

• Short Title
• Interpretation
• Prescription of a Pollutant
• Prohibition
• Established by

CANADA SHIPPING ACT

Garbage Pollution Prevention Regulations

REGULATIONS RESPECTING THE

PREVENTION OF THE POLLUTION OF

WATERS BY GARBAGE FROM SHIPS

Short Title

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Garbage Pollution Prevention Regulations.

Interpretation

2. In these Regulations,

"Canadian waters" means the territorial sea of Canada and all internal waters of Canada;

"discharge" includes, but not so as to limit its meaning, any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, throwing or dumping;

"garbage" means solid galley waste, food waste, paper, rags, plastics, glass, metal, bottles, crockery, junk or similar refuse;

"ship" includes every description of vessel used in navigation and not propelled by oars.

Prescription of a Pollutant

3. For the purposes of Part XV of the Canada Shipping Act, garbage is a prescribed pollutant.

Prohibition

4. (1) No ship shall discharge garbage into any of the following waters:

(a) Canadian waters south of the 60th parallel of north latitude;

(b) Canadian waters north of the 60th parallel of north latitude that are not within a shipping safety control zone prescribed pursuant to the Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act; and

(c) fishing zones of Canada described in section 16 of the Oceans Act and prescribed in regulations made under paragraph 25(b) of that Act.

(2) No person shall discharge or permit the discharge of garbage from a ship into any of the waters described in paragraphs (1)(a) to (c).

Established by the CONSOLIDATED REGULATIONS OF CANADA, 1978.

Modified by:

SOR/2000-37  12 January, 2000, pursuant to subsection 338(1), the definition "pollutant" in section 654, subsection 656(1) and paragraph 657(1)(o) of the Canada Shipping Act, coming into force January 12, 2000.

Section 3 is replaced; Paragraph 4(1)(c) is replaced.