{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/harbours-docks-and-piers-clauses-act-1847/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/harbours-docks-and-piers-clauses-act-1847/section-23.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/10-11/27",
  "legislation_title": "Harbours, Docks and Piers Clauses Act 1847",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/harbours-docks-and-piers-clauses-act-1847",
  "path": "section/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Power to lease wharfs, warehouses, &c.",
  "text": "The undertakers may lease or grant the use or occupation of any warehouses, buildings, wharfs, yards, cranes, machines, or other conveniences provided by them for the purposes of this or the special Act, at such rents, and upon such terms and conditions as shall be agreed upon between the undertakers and the persons taking the same, provided that no such lease be granted for a longer term than three years.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 23 excluded (8.7.1996) by S.I. 1996/1627, art. 41(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 23 excluded (E.W.S.) (17.3.2010) by The Harwich Parkeston Quay Harbour Revision Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/626), arts. 1, 15(3) (with art. 20)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/27/section/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:44:04.362741+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."
}