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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-aberdeen-harbour-revision-order-2016/article-18",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2016/9780111033494",
  "legislation_title": "The Aberdeen Harbour Revision Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-aberdeen-harbour-revision-order-2016",
  "path": "article/18",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "General directions to vessels",
  "text": "(1) The Board may, after consultation with the UK Chamber of Shipping, give general directions for the purpose of promoting or securing conditions conducive to the ease, convenience or safety of navigation or for the conservation of fauna, avifauna and flora in the harbour and the approaches and channels leading thereto and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, for any of the following purposes—\n(a) for designating areas, routes or channels in the harbour and the approaches thereto which vessels are to use, or refrain from using, for movement or mooring;\n(b) for requiring the master of a vessel to give to the harbour master information relating to the vessel reasonably required by the harbour master for the purposes of this paragraph.\n(2) Directions given under paragraph (1) may apply—\n(a) to all vessels or to a class of vessel designated, or the designation of which is provided for, in the direction; and\n(b) to the whole of the harbour and the approaches and channels leading thereto, or to a part designated, or the designation of which is provided for, in the direction; and\n(c) at all times or at times designated, or the designation of which is provided for, in the direction,\nand every direction given under this article shall specify the extent of its application in relation to the matters referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) to (c).\n(3) The Board may, after consultation with the UK Chamber of Shipping, revoke or amend directions given under this article.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2016/9780111033494/article/18",
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  "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."
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