{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1982/schedule-3/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1982/schedule-3/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1982/30",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1982",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In this Schedule—\n“the appropriate authority” means, in relation to any area for which a resolution has been passed under section 2 above, the local authority who passed it;\n“the chief officer of police”, in relation to any locality, means the chief officer of police for the police area in which the locality is situated; and\n“vessel” includes any ship, boat, raft or other apparatus constructed or adapted for floating on water.\n(2) This Schedule applies to hovercraft as it applies to vessels.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 5 modified (6.4.2010 for E., 8.5.2010 for W.) by Policing and Crime Act 2009 (c. 26), s. 116(4), Sch. 3 para. 2(4); S.I. 2010/722, art. 3(b) (with arts. 4-12); S.I. 2010/1375, art. 3(b) (with transitional and saving provisions in S.I. 2010/1395, arts. 3-11)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2006/48",
      "affecting_title": "Police and Justice Act 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/30/schedule/3/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:11:07.379357+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."
}