{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dockyard-port-of-plymouth-order-2020/schedule-2/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dockyard-port-of-plymouth-order-2020/schedule-2/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1261",
  "legislation_title": "The Dockyard Port of Plymouth Order 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dockyard-port-of-plymouth-order-2020",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Blue flashing lights",
  "text": "(1) A vessel must not exhibit a blue flashing light in the dockyard port without written permission from the Queen’s Harbour Master.\n(2) Subparagraph (1) does not apply to a vessel used by—\n(a) the Queen’s Harbour Master;\n(b) the Cattewater Harbour Master;\n(c) a UK police force;\n(d) the Maritime and Coastguard Agency;\n(e) a fire and rescue authority in England or Wales;\n(f) the Royal National Lifeboat Institution;\n(g) the Torpoint Ferry; or\n(h) United Kingdom Border Force.\n(3) In this paragraph—\n“fire and rescue authority in England or Wales” has the same meaning as in section 1 of the Fire and Rescue Act 2004; and\n“UK police force” has the meaning given by section 375 (definitions relating to police forces) of the Armed Forces Act 2006.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2004 c. 21, as amended by the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c.3), Sch. 1(1) paras. 2 and 3 and Sch. 2(2) para. 111, and Greater Manchester Combined Authority (Fire and Rescue Functions) Order (S.I. 2017/469), art. 12."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2006 c. 52, as amended by Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order (S.I. 2013/602) Sch.2(1) para. 56, and Armed Forces Act 2011 (c.18) Sch. 5 para. 1."
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1261/schedule/2/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:23:09.221965+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."
}