{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/harbours-transfer-act-1862/section-8",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/25-26/69",
  "legislation_title": "Harbours Transfer Act 1862",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/harbours-transfer-act-1862",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Powers for protection of navigation, &c. under local Acts for harbours, railways and other works on tidal lands, &c. to be exercised by Board of Trade.",
  "text": "Where any special or local or local and personal Act, or Act of a local or local and personal nature, already passed or to be passed before the end of the present session of Parliament,—\n(1) Authorizing or regulating the construction of a railway, or the execution of any work whatever, situate on or affecting tidal lands, or the shore of the sea or of any navigable river, where and so far up the same as the tide flows and reflows; or,\n(2) Authorizing or regulating the construction or improving of a harbour, dock, or pier, or works connected therewith, by any company, body corporate, commissioners, trustees, undertakers, persons or person; or,\n(3) Constituting or altering or regulating the constitution of any harbour or conservancy authority; or,\n(4) Altering or regulating the powers or duties of any harbour or conservancy authority,—\ncontains either expressly or by incorporation or reference or otherwise any provision for any of the purposes following:—\nFor preventing the construction or execution of any work or the doing of any thing without the consent or approval of the Admiralty, or for authorizing or requiring any work to be constructed, executed, or maintained, or any thing to be done with the consent or on the requisition or to the satisfaction of the Admiralty:\nFor empowering the Admiralty to exercise any authority concerning lifeboats, mortars, rockets, tide gauges, or barometers to be provided by any undertakers:\nFor empowering the Admiralty to make a local survey or examination at the expense of any company, body, or person:\nFor empowering the Admiralty, in case of any work being abandoned or suffered to fall into disuse or decay, or in any other case, to abate, remove, or alter any work or any part of it, or restore the site thereof to its former condition, at the like expense:\nFor empowering the Admiralty to exercise any authority concerning lights to be maintained at night during the construction or execution of any work:\nfor empowering the Admiralty or the First Lord of the Admiralty to nominate or appoint a member or members of any board or body of trustees, commissioners, or conservators, or of any harbour or conservancy authority:\nFor empowering the Admiralty to determine any dispute or difference between or among any bodies or persons:\nFor empowering the Admiralty or the First Lord of the Admiralty to nominate or appoint any arbitrator, referee, or umpire, or any engineer, inspector, or officer, or any person to fill any place or discharge any duty under such Act:\nor any other provision for the protection, management, or regulation of harbours or navigation, or for the exercise of any control or power over or in relation to any harbour authority, or any other provision in any wise relating to conservancy, or authorizing or requiring any act or thing concerning harbours or navigation or conservancy to be done by or in relation to the Admiralty,—\nThen such Acts and all enactments relative thereto shall be read and construed as if in the respective provisions aforesaid the Board of Trade were named instead of the Admiralty, and the President of the Board of Trade instead of the First Lord of the Admiralty.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/25-26/69/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:08:06.659469+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."
}