{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/caledonian-maritime-assets-lochaline-ferry-services-slipway-harbour-empowerment-order-2013/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/caledonian-maritime-assets-lochaline-ferry-services-slipway-harbour-empowerment-order-2013/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2013/46",
  "legislation_title": "The Caledonian Maritime Assets (Lochaline Ferry Services Slipway) Harbour Empowerment Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/caledonian-maritime-assets-lochaline-ferry-services-slipway-harbour-empowerment-order-2013",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Tidal works not to be executed without approval of the Scottish Ministers",
  "text": "(1) A tidal work shall not be reconstructed, replaced or relaid except in accordance with plans and sections approved by the Scottish Ministers and subject to any conditions and restrictions imposed by the Scottish Ministers before the work is begun or while work is still in progress.\n(2) If a tidal work is reconstructed, replaced or relaid in contravention of this article or of any condition or restriction imposed under this article—\n(a) the Scottish Ministers may by notice in writing require CMAL at its own expense to remove the tidal work or any part of it and restore the site of the tidal work to its former condition; and if on the expiration of 30 days from the date when the notice is served upon CMAL it has failed to comply with the requirements of the notice, the Scottish Ministers may execute the works specified in the notice; or\n(b) if it appears to the Scottish Ministers urgently necessary to do so, they may themselves remove the tidal work or part of it and restore the site to its former condition,\nand any expenditure incurred by the Scottish Ministers in so doing shall be recoverable from CMAL as a debt.\n(3) The works referred to in paragraph (1) shall be deemed to be “harbour works” within the meaning, and for the purposes of the Marine Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2007.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 5 in force at 13.2.2013, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2007/1518; “harbour works” is defined in regulation 2(1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2013/46/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:41:02.269654+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."
}