{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lancaster-port-commission-harbour-revision-constitution-order-2003/article-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2724",
  "legislation_title": "The Lancaster Port Commission Harbour Revision (Constitution) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lancaster-port-commission-harbour-revision-constitution-order-2003",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Power to co-opt additional Commissioners",
  "text": "(1) The Commissioners referred to in article 4(1) above may at any time co-opt not more than two persons to serve as Commissioners for such period not exceeding twelve months as the co-opting Commissioners may specify at the time of co-option.\n(2) If the Commissioners exercise the power under paragraph (1) above to co-opt any person or persons to serve as Commissioners, at least one of those persons shall be a person who is, at the time of his appointment, resident or employed in the vicinity of the Port of Lancaster and who appears to the Commissioners to have special knowledge, experience or ability in one or more of the following matters—\n(a) management of harbours;\n(b) industry, commerce or finance;\n(c) administration;\n(d) navigation;\n(e) other matters such as local knowledge which are considered relevant from time to time by the Commissioners to the discharge by them of their functions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2724/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:46:32.566904+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."
}