{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/argyll-and-bute-council-oban-harbour-revision-order-2026/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/argyll-and-bute-council-oban-harbour-revision-order-2026/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2026/287",
  "legislation_title": "The Argyll and Bute Council (Oban) Harbour Revision Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/argyll-and-bute-council-oban-harbour-revision-order-2026",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Provisions as to damage",
  "text": "(1) This article applies to any damage caused to any work or property of the Council in the harbour—\n(a) by any person who contravenes any provision of this Order or any other enactment relating to the harbour; or\n(b) by a vessel, whether or not as a result of any contravention of any such provision.\n(2) Where damage to which this article applies has occurred, the Council may detain any vessel which caused the damage, and any other property belonging to or in the charge of the person who caused the damage, until the cost of the damage has been paid or until reasonable security has been given to the Council.\n(3) Subject to any entitlement to limit liability provided in any other enactment, the owner of any vessel causing damage to which this article applies and the master (if it was through their intentional act or failure to act that the damage was done) shall be liable for the cost of the damage.\n(4) This article does not affect—\n(a) any right of the owner or master of a vessel to recover the cost of damage from any person whose act, or failure to act, gave rise to the damage;\n(b) any right of the Council under any other enactment, agreement or rule of law; or\n(c) the criminal liability of any person under any provision of this Order, or any byelaw made in relation to the harbour by the Council.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2026/287/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:32:48.863558+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}