{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-licensing-exempted-activities-order-2011/article-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-licensing-exempted-activities-order-2011/article-19.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/409",
  "legislation_title": "The Marine Licensing (Exempted Activities) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-licensing-exempted-activities-order-2011",
  "path": "article/19",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Maintenance of coast protection, drainage and flood defence works",
  "text": "(1) Article 4 applies—\n(a) to an activity carried on by or on behalf of the Environment Agency for the purpose of maintaining any—\n(i) coast protection works;\n(ii) drainage works; or\n(iii) flood defence works;\n(b) to an activity carried on by or on behalf of any of the following for the purpose of maintaining any coast protection works—\n(i) a coast protection authority (within the meaning of Part 1 of the Coast Protection Act 1949);\n(ii) a local authority (within the meaning of section 68(9) of the Act);\n(iii) the Secretary of State for Defence\n(2) Paragraph (1) is subject to the condition that the activity is carried on within the existing boundaries of the works being maintained.\n(3) But article 4 does not apply in relation to any such activity which consists of beach replenishment.\n(4) In this article—\n“beach replenishment” means the addition of material from land-based, off-shore or other coastal sources not connected to the beach or its associated sediment system to replace material permanently lost from the system;\n“coast protection works” includes—\n(a)beach re-profiling, which involves the movement of beach material in a cross-shore direction up or down the beach; and\n(b)beach recycling, which involves the movement of beach material along the beach from areas of accretion to areas of erosion within the beach or associated sediment system.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 19(1)(b) substituted (31.5.2019) by The Marine Licensing (Exempted Activities) (Amendment) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/893), arts. 1(1), 5(a) (with art. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 19(4) inserted (31.5.2019) by The Marine Licensing (Exempted Activities) (Amendment) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/893), arts. 1(1), 5(b) (with art. 1(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/409/article/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:16:32.716751+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."
}