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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/harbours-piers-and-ferries-scotland-act-1937/section-15",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw8and1Geo6/1/28",
  "legislation_title": "Harbours, Piers and Ferries (Scotland) Act 1937",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/harbours-piers-and-ferries-scotland-act-1937",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Duty of maintenance by authority receiving assistance from public funds.",
  "text": "(1) Where any assistance by way of grant or loan shall, after the commencement of this Act, have been sanctioned and given out of moneys provided by Parliament to a local or harbour authority for the purpose of constructing, improving or repairing any marine work to which this Part of this Act applies, and where the Secretary of State for Scotland is, at any time, satisfied that any particular operation is necessary in order to maintain the marine work in an efficient condition and proper state of repair, Secretary of State for Scotland may by notice served on the authority require it to carry out such operation within such period, not being less than one month, as may be specified in the notice, and it shall be the duty of the authority, unless, on an application to the sheriff under the next succeeding subsection, the requirement contained in the notice shall have been cancelled or modified, to comply with such requirement.\n(2) Where a notice has been served on an authority in pursuance of the foregoing subsection, that authority, if they are of opinion that the requirement contained in the notice is in the circumstances unnecessary or unreasonable, may within one month after such service present an application to the sheriff for the cancellation or modification of the requirement, and on any such application the sheriff may cancel or modify the requirement in such manner as he shall think fit, having regard to all the circumstances of the case including the cost involved, and it shall be the duty of the authority to comply with any requirement so modified.\n(3) Where an authority whose duty it is under this section to comply with a requirement to carry out an operation fails to do so within the period specified in the notice served under subsection (1) of this section, or, in the case where there has been an application under subsection (2) of this section to the sheriff, within such period as may be specified in the sheriff’s deliverance, the Secretary of State for Scotland may himself carry out the operation and may recover from the authority the expense thereby incurred.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1970/1537, art. 6 Sch. 2 para. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw8and1Geo6/1/28/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:34:29.467117+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."
}