Antarctic Environmental Protection Regulations

Marginal note:Disposal from vessel

• 42 (1) Subject to subsection (2), a permit holder may not dispose of wastes into the sea from a vessel.

• Marginal note:Exceptions

  (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to

  • (a) the disposal of wastes in cases permitted under Annex V to MARPOL 73/78, the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as amended by the Protocol of 1978 relating to it and by any more recent amendment that is in force; or

  • (b) the disposal of wastes under a permit issued under Division 3 of Part 7 of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999.