{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lancaster-port-commission-harbour-revision-order-1994/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lancaster-port-commission-harbour-revision-order-1994/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1647",
  "legislation_title": "The Lancaster Port Commission Harbour Revision Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lancaster-port-commission-harbour-revision-order-1994",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Powers as to moorings, etc.",
  "text": "(1) The Commissioners may place, lay down, maintain and use moorings on land within the port or on any other land with the consent in writing of the owner or leasee thereof or any other person having an interest entitling him to give that consent.\n(2) The Commissioners may from time to time grant to any person, subject to article 23 of this Order, a licence (in this Order referred to as a “mooring licence”) to place, lay down, maintain or use existing or future moorings at such place or places within the port and for such number of vessels as may be specified in the licence, and on such terms and conditions as they think fit.\n(3) The Commissioners shall not unreasonably refuse to grant a licence to an owner or leasee of land to place, lay down, maintain or use moorings on that land; and any question whether in such a case a grant of a licence has been unreasonably refused shall be determined by the Secretary of State.\n(4) The grant of a mooring licence shall not entitle a person to place or maintain any mooring on land not owned or held on lease by him or by the Commissioners or in which he has no appropriate interest.\n(5) A mooring licence shall be valid for such period, not exceeding five years, as may be specified in the licence.\n(6) The Commissioners may charge a reasonable fee for the grant of the mooring licence and for the use of any moorings provided by them under paragraph (1) above.\n(7) The Commissioners may confer total or partial exemptions from, allow rebates to, or make compositions with, any person with respect to the fees prescribed by them under this article; and they may vary or extinguish any such exemption, rebate or composition.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1647/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:30:48.249432+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."
}