Statistics Act, 1999
R 385
"dumping at sea"
means—
| (a) | any deliberate disposal into the sea of any waste or material other than operalional waste from a vessel, aircraft, platform or other man-made structure at sea; |
| (b) | any deliberate disposal into the sea of a vessel, aircraft, platform or other man-made structure at sea; |
| (c) | any storage of any waste or other material on or in the seabed, its subsoil or substrata: or |
| (d) | any abandonment or toppling at site of a platform or other structure at sea, for the sole purpose of deliberate disposal, but "dumping at sea" does not include— |
| (i) | the lawful disposal at sea through sea out-fall pipelines of any waste or other material generated on land; |
| (ii) | the lawful depositing of any substance or placing or abandoning of anything in the sea for a purpose other than mere disposal of it; or |
| (iii) | disposing of or storing in the sea any tailings or other material from the bed or subsoil of coastal waters generated by the lawful exploration, exploitation and associated off-shore processing of mineral resources from the bed, subsoil or substrata of the sea; |
