{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/harbours-act-northern-ireland-1970/section-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/harbours-act-northern-ireland-1970/section-13.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1970/1",
  "legislation_title": "Harbours Act (Northern Ireland) 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/harbours-act-northern-ireland-1970",
  "path": "section/13",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Application of provisions of Harbours, Docks and Piers Clauses Act.",
  "text": "(1) The Harbours, Docks and Piers Clauses Act 1847 (except sections 6 to 13, 16 to 19, 21, 31, 49, 50 and 83 to 90) shall, except in so far as the Ministry may by order direct, apply to a harbour vested in a local harbour authority as if—\n(a) the harbour had been constructed in pursuance of an Act which incorporated that Act;\n(b) this Act were the special Act for the purposes of that Act;\n(c) the authority were the undertakers for those purposes.\n(2) Any reference to a vessel in the said Act of 1847 as applied by subsection (1) shall be deemed to include a sea-going hovercraft and in section 28 of that Act as so applied shall include a floating dock and a vessel of exceptional construction or method of propulsion.\n(3) Where—\n(a) a wreck is sold in pursuance of section 56 of the Harbours, Docks and Piers Clauses Act 1847, as applied by subsection (1); and\n(b) the amount realised by the sale is insufficient to meet any expenses incurred by a local harbour authority in removing the wreck;\nthe authority may recover the amount of the deficiency from the person who was the owner of the vessel at the time when it was wrecked.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1847 c. 27"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1970/1/section/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:29:46.409362+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."
}