{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-licensing-exempted-activities-order-2011/article-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-licensing-exempted-activities-order-2011/article-24.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/24",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Removal of obstruction or danger to navigation",
  "text": "(1) Article 4 applies to a removal activity carried on by a person referred to in paragraph (2) for the purpose of removing anything causing or likely to cause obstruction or danger to navigation.\n(2) The persons are—\n(a) a conservancy authority (within the meaning given by section 313(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995);\n(b) a harbour authority;\n(c) a lighthouse authority;\n(d) a person having powers under any enactment or statutory order to work or maintain a canal or other inland navigation, including a navigation in tidal water.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 21."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/409/article/24",
    "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."
}