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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/comhairle-nan-eilean-siar-various-harbours-harbour-revision-order-2002/article-50",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2002/410",
  "legislation_title": "The Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Various Harbours) Harbour Revision Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/comhairle-nan-eilean-siar-various-harbours-harbour-revision-order-2002",
  "path": "article/50",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": "Refusal of customs clearance",
  "text": "(1) A customs officer may refuse–\n(a) to receive a report inwards or to grant a clearance outwards to a vessel; and\n(b) to pass an entry for imported goods liable to charges;\nunless he is satisfied that all charges payable to the Comhairle in respect of that vessel or of those goods, as the case may be, have been paid or that a sum of money or guarantee in respect thereof has been deposited with, or given to, the Comhairle.\n(2) Where a person who has paid, or by agreement with the Comhairle given security or deposited a guarantee for, a charge on or in respect of a vessel or goods, requests a certificate of his having done so for production to a customs officer in order to prevent a refusal under paragraph (1) above, the Comhairle shall give him such a certificate in such form as it shall determine.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2002/410/article/50",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:39:57.666748+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."
}