{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gipsy-encampments-district-of-dover-order-1990/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gipsy-encampments-district-of-dover-order-1990/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1001",
  "legislation_title": "The Gipsy Encampments (District of Dover) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gipsy-encampments-district-of-dover-order-1990",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order designates the District of Dover as an area to which section 10 of the Caravan Sites Act 1968 applies.\nIt is an offence within a designated area for a gipsy to station a caravan for the purpose of residing for any period on any landwithin the boundaries of a highway, or on any other unoccupied land, or on any occupied landwithout the consent of the occupier.\nUnder section 11 of the Act (substituted by section 174 of the Local Government, Planningand LandAct 1980), unlawfully stationed caravansand their occupants may be removed by order of a magistrates' court.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1001/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:20:49.813257+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."
}