{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/harbours-transfer-act-1862/section-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/harbours-transfer-act-1862/section-9.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/25-26/69",
  "legislation_title": "Harbours Transfer Act 1862",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/harbours-transfer-act-1862",
  "path": "section/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Power to Admiralty to retain authority over ports, &c. where dockyards, &c. are situate.",
  "text": "Provided always, that where it appears to the Admiralty that the interests of Her Majesty’s Naval Service require that the whole or any part of any harbour, port, bay, estuary, or navigable river in, on, or adjoining to which there is or shall be any of Her Majesty’s dockyards, victualling yards, steam factory yards, arsenals, or naval stations, should be excepted, either entirely or in some respects out of the operation of the last foregoing section, the Admiralty may give notice in writing to the Board of Trade that any such harbour, port, bay, estuary, or navigable river as aforesaid, or such part thereof as is in the notice specified, is to be deemed so excepted, either entirely or in the respects therein mentioned; and every such notice shall be published by the Admiralty in the London, Edinburgh, or Belfast Gazette (according as the place affected may be in England, Scotland, or Ireland); and thereupon the harbour, port, bay, estuary, or navigable river to which such notice relates, or the part thereof therein specified, shall, either entirely or in the respects therein mentioned, as the case may require, be and remain as if this Act had not been passed; but any such notice may be from time to time varied or at any time revoked by a like notice published in like manner.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by S.R. & O. 1921/1804 (Rev. XVI, p. 967; 1921, p. 424), art. 7(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Functions of Board of Trade under s. 9 now exercisable by Secretary of State: Ministers of the Crown (Emergency Appointments) Act 1939 (c. 77), s. 5, S.R. & O. 1939/1470 (Rev. XV, p. 214: 1939 II, p. 3051), art. 1, 1941/654 (Rev. XV, p. 228: 1941 I, p. 1221), art. 2, Ministers of the Crown (Transfer of Functions) Act 1946 (c. 31), s. 1(2), S.R. & O. 1946/375 (Rev. XV, p. 230: 1946 I, p. 1009) art. 2 and S.I. 1970/1681, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Functions of Admiralty under s. 9 now exercisable by Secretary of State: Defence (Transfer of Functions) Act 1964 (c. 15), ss. 1(2), 3(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/25-26/69/section/9",
    "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."
}