{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deep-sea-mining-act-1981/section-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deep-sea-mining-act-1981/section-11.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/53",
  "legislation_title": "Deep Sea Mining Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deep-sea-mining-act-1981",
  "path": "section/11",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Inspectors.",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State or the Scottish Ministers may appoint as inspectors to discharge such functions as may be prescribed and generally to assist him (or them) in the execution of this Act such persons appearing to him (or them) to be qualified for the purpose as he considers (or they consider) appropriate from time to time.\n(2) The Secretary of State or the Scottish Ministers may make to or in respect of any inspector appointed under subsection (1) above such payments by way of remuneration or otherwise as the Secretary of State or, as the case may be, the Scottish Ministers, may determine with the approval (in the case of an appointment by the Secretary of State) of the Minister for the Civil Service.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 11(1) inserted (14.7.2014) by Deep Sea Mining Act 2014 (c. 15), s. 2(3), Sch. para. 11(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 11(1) inserted (14.7.2014) by Deep Sea Mining Act 2014 (c. 15), s. 2(3), Sch. para. 11(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 11(1) inserted (14.7.2014) by Deep Sea Mining Act 2014 (c. 15), s. 2(3), Sch. para. 11(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 11(2) inserted (14.7.2014) by Deep Sea Mining Act 2014 (c. 15), s. 2(3), Sch. para. 11(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 11(2) substituted (14.7.2014) by Deep Sea Mining Act 2014 (c. 15), s. 2(3), Sch. para. 11(b)(ii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/53/section/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:13:49.232596+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."
}