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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-loch-ryan-port-harbour-empowerment-order-2009/article-23",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2009/9780111007297",
  "legislation_title": "The Loch Ryan Port (Harbour Empowerment) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-loch-ryan-port-harbour-empowerment-order-2009",
  "path": "article/23",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Special directions to vessels",
  "text": "(1) The harbour master may give a direction under this article—\n(a) requiring any vessel anywhere within the port or the approaches to the port to comply with a requirement made in or under a general direction;\n(b) regulating the time at which and the manner in which any vessel shall enter into, go out of, or lie in or at the port;\n(c) for securing that vessels move only at certain times or during certain periods;\n(d) prohibiting the mooring of vessels in any particular part or parts of the port;\n(e) regulating or requiring the movement, mooring or unmooring of a vessel; and\n(f) regulating the manner in which a vessel takes in or discharges (from ship to shore or shore to ship) passengers, cargo, fuel, water, ship’s stores or ballast in the port.\n(2) A special direction may be given in any manner considered by the harbour master to be appropriate.\n(3) The harbour master may revoke or amend a special direction.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2009/9780111007297/article/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:38:04.799138+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."
}