{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/comhairle-nan-eilean-siar-aird-mhor-barra-harbour-empowerment-order-2001/article-9",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2001/262",
  "legislation_title": "The Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Aird Mhor, Barra) Harbour Empowerment Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/comhairle-nan-eilean-siar-aird-mhor-barra-harbour-empowerment-order-2001",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Reclamation of land",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this Order, the Comhairle may, within the harbour fill up, raise, enclose and reclaim land from the sea and the bed and foreshore of the harbour and for that purpose may place such piles and construct such groynes, retaining walls and other works in and upon the seabed and foreshore as the Comhairle deem necessary.\n(2) The Comhairle shall not exercise the powers conferred by paragraph (1)–\n(a) in relation to any land not owned by them unless they first obtain the consent in writing of the owner thereof; or\n(b) in relation to any part of the harbour in front of or adjoining land belonging to Her Majesty in right of her Crown or to a government department or held in trust for Her Majesty for the purposes of a government department and protected by article 39 (Crown Rights) below, without the consent in writing of the Crown Estate Commissioners or, as the case may be, the government department.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2017/524",
      "affecting_title": "The Crown Estate Transfer Scheme 2017"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2017/524",
      "affecting_title": "The Crown Estate Transfer Scheme 2017"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2001/262/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:45:48.027970+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."
}