Marine Environmental Protection (Waste Reception Facilities) Regulations 2016.

These Regulations, consisting of 15 sections and seven Schedules, establish the following provisions to prevent marine pollution and apply to: any port, harbour, terminal, repair yard of ships, dry dock, anchorage or off shore marine facilities or any other marine related facility in Sri Lanka; and any service provider registered with the Authority to provide waste reception facilities. These regulations shall not apply to warships, naval auxiliary or other ship owned or operated by a state and used for the time being only for that government’s non-commercial services. The Authority or any service provider shall provide adequate and effective waste reception facilities within or outside any port, harbour, terminal, repair yard of ships, dry dock, anchorage or off shore marine related facility or any other marine related facility in Sri Lanka to enable any ship using such port, harbour, terminal, repair yard of ships, dry dock, anchorage or off shore marine related facility or any other marine related facility or traversing Sri Lanka waters or any other maritime zone, its fore-shore and the coastal zone of Sri Lanka to discharge any waste without causing undue delay to such ship. Where the owner, operator, master or agent of any ship has reason to believe that waste reception facilities available at any port, harbour, terminal, repair yard of ships, dry dock, anchorage or off shore marine related facility or any other marine related facility in Sri Lanka is not adequate for the discharge of the waste on board such ship, he shall forthwith inform the Authority of such fact and request the provision of adequate waste reception facilities.