{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-and-coastal-access-act-2009/section-309",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/23",
  "legislation_title": "Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-and-coastal-access-act-2009",
  "path": "section/309",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "309",
  "heading": "Interpretation of this Part",
  "text": "In this Part—\n“the 1949 Act” has the meaning given by section 296(8);\n“access authority”, in relation to any land, has the same meaning as in Part 1 of the CROW Act;\n“the coastal access duty” has the meaning given by section 296(4);\n“coastal margin” means land which is coastal margin for the purposes of Part 1 of the CROW Act (including any land treated as coastal margin by virtue of section 16 of that Act);\n“the CROW Act” has the meaning given by section 296(8);\n“the English coast” has the meaning given by section 300;\n“the English coastal route” has the meaning given by section 296(3);\n“estuarial waters” means any waters within the limits of transitional waters, within the meaning of the Water Framework Directive (that is to say, Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy);\n“functions” includes powers and duties;\n“long-distance route” means a route provided for in approved proposals relating to a long-distance route within the meaning of section 52(3) of the 1949 Act (as read with section 55(4) of that Act);\n“the sea”, subject to section 301, does not include any part of a river which is upstream of the seaward limit of the river's estuarial waters.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/23/section/309",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:10:47.916077+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."
}