{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/harbours-act-1964/section-58",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/harbours-act-1964/section-58.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1964/40",
  "legislation_title": "Harbours Act 1964",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/harbours-act-1964",
  "path": "section/58",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "58",
  "heading": "Drainage and river authorities not to be harbour authorities for purposes of this Act if not possessing exceptional powers.",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Act neither an internal drainage board, the Environment Agency, the Natural Resources Body for Wales, a water undertaker, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency a district board nor an improvement committee shall be taken to be a harbour authority if, apart from this provision, they would only be taken to be such by reason of the fact that river works powers or duties are vested in them; and any reference in this Act to functions of a harbour authority relating to a harbour shall be construed as not including a reference to such powers or duties.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 58 substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 31 (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Water Act 1973 (c. 37), Sch. 8 para. 87"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted (E.W.) by Water Act 1989 (c. 15), ss. 58(7), 101(1), 141(6), 160(1)(2)(4), 163, 189(4)-(10), 190, 193(1), Sch. 25 para. 31(2), Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2), 17, 40(4), 57(6), 58"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 58 substituted (S.) (1.4.1996) by S.I. 1996/973, reg. 2, Sch. para. 2(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1964/40/section/58",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:59:36.120497+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."
}