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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/harbours-northern-ireland-order-2002/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/harbours-northern-ireland-order-2002/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/2002/3155",
  "legislation_title": "The Harbours (Northern Ireland) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/harbours-northern-ireland-order-2002",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Designated harbour authorities",
  "text": "(1) This Order applies to any designated harbour authority.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), “designated harbour authority” means any of the following harbour authorities—\n(a) the Belfast Harbour Commissioners;\n(b) the Coleraine Harbour Commissioners;\n(c) the Harbour of Carlingford Lough Improvement Commissioners;\n(d) the Londonderry Port and Harbour Commissioners;\n(e) the Warrenpoint Harbour Authority.\n(3) The Department may by order subject to negative resolution amend paragraph (2) by making additions or amendments to, or omissions from, the list of harbour authorities for the time being set out in that paragraph.\n(4) Nothing in paragraph (3) authorises the inclusion in the list of harbour authorities for the time being set out in paragraph (2) of—\n(a) a district council, a company having share capital or a harbour authority for a fishery harbour; or\n(b) a body which is not a harbour authority.\n(5) Before making an order under paragraph (3), the Department shall consult any harbour authority to which the order will apply.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2002/3155/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:26.315590+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."
}