{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/harwich-dock-company-harbour-empowerment-order-1988/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/harwich-dock-company-harbour-empowerment-order-1988/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1545",
  "legislation_title": "The Harwich Dock Company Harbour Empowerment Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/harwich-dock-company-harbour-empowerment-order-1988",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "HARBOURS, DOCKS, PIERS AND FERRIES\nMade 27th June 1988\nLaid before Parliament 19th October 1988\nComing into force 1st September 1989\nWhereas objections to this Order have been made and not withdrawn and the Secretary of State for Transport is required, in accordance with the procedure prescribed in paragraph 4A of Schedule 3 to the Harbours Act 1964, to give notice of the making of this Order and its effect to each person opposing the Order;\nAnd whereas this Order shall come into force 28 days after the giving of such notice unless any such person gives notice to the Secretary of State that he maintains his opposition to the Order, and his opposition is not withdrawn before that date, in which case it shall come into force at such time as prescribed in the Statutory Orders (Special Procedure) Act 1945;\nNow therefore, the Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred by section 16 of the Harbours Act 1964 and now vested in him and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and on the application of the Harwich Dock Company Limited, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1964 c. 40; section 16 and Schedule 3 were amended by the Transport Act 1981 (c. 56) Schedule 6 paragraphs 4(1) to (8) and 14(2) and (3)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1945 c. 18, as amended by the Statutory Orders (Special Procedure) Act 1965 c. 43."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See S.I. 1981/238."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1545/introduction",
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  "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."
}