{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lerwick-harbour-revision-order-1999/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lerwick-harbour-revision-order-1999/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1170",
  "legislation_title": "The Lerwick Harbour Revision Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lerwick-harbour-revision-order-1999",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Change of Name",
  "text": "(1) The Trustees of the Port and Harbour of Lerwick shall continue to exist as a body corporate acting pursuant to and under the Harbour Acts and Orders but on and after the coming into force of this Order shall be known as “Lerwick Port Authority”.\n(2) The Trustees and the Chairman of the Trustees in office at the coming into force of this Order shall thereafter be known respectively as “Members” of the Authority and “Chairman” of the Authority and shall remain in office as Members and Chairman of the Authority until the inaugural meeting of the Members of the Authority in 1999 being the first meeting of the Authority following the nomination or election and appointment of Members pursuant to Articles 7 and 8 hereof.\n(3) The title “the General Manager and Clerk” shall be changed to “Chief Executive” on the date of the coming into force of this Order.\n(4) The change of names effected by paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) of this article shall not affect the rights or obligations of any person or render defective any legal proceedings; and any reference in –\n(a) any enactment, or\n(b) any agreement, deed, lease, licence or other instrument in force or in existence immediately before the coming into force of this Order,\nto the Trustees of the Port and Harbour of Lerwick, a Trustee of that Port and Harbour or to the General Manager and Clerk shall be read as a reference to Lerwick Port Authority or, as the case may require, to a Member or to the Chief Executive of the Authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1170/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:49:40.976045+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."
}