# The Argyll and Bute Council (Oban) Harbour Revision Order 2026, Article 15: Moorings


(1) The Council may provide, place, lay down, maintain, renew, use or remove such moorings, buoys and similar apparatus within the harbour as it considers necessary or desirable for the convenience of vessels.
(2) Before providing, placing or laying down moorings, buoys and similar apparatus under paragraph (1), the Council shall publish on its website notice of its intention to do so and allow a reasonable period for members of the public and interested persons to make written representations, and shall have due regard to such representations.
(3) The Council may demand, receive and recover in respect of any vessel using any of the moorings provided by the Council under paragraph (1), or moored to land owned or leased by the Council, such reasonable charges as the Council may from time to time prescribe.
(4) The Council may compound with any person with respect to the payment of the charges prescribed under paragraph (3).
(5) The Council may from time to time grant a licence to any person to place, lay down, maintain, renew and use moorings, buoys and similar apparatus for vessels in the harbour.
(6) Before granting a licence under paragraph (5), the Council shall publish on its website notice of any application for such a licence and allow a reasonable period for members of the public and interested persons to make written representations, and shall have due regard to such representations.
(7) The Council shall not provide, place or lay down moorings, buoys and similar apparatus, or grant a licence for the same purpose, where doing so would impede access to and from the railway pier.
(8) Any person who, without reasonable excuse, places, lays down, maintains, renews or uses a mooring, buoy or similar apparatus for vessels within the harbour except under and in accordance with the terms and conditions of a licence granted under this article, shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
(9) Any licence granted under paragraph (5) shall be valid only for a period of one year, or such longer period as seems to the Council to be desirable in the circumstances, commencing with the date on which it takes effect.
(10) The Council may charge a reasonable fee for the grant of a licence under this article.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2026/287/article/15 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/argyll-and-bute-council-oban-harbour-revision-order-2026/article-15
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