{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-licensing-exempted-activities-order-2011/article-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-licensing-exempted-activities-order-2011/article-31.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/31",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Diver trails within restricted areas",
  "text": "Article 4 applies to a deposit or removal activity carried on for the purpose of placing, securing or removing signage or other identifying markers relating to—\n(a) a wreck within an area designated as a restricted area within the meaning of section 1 of the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973.\n(b) a monument designated as a scheduled monument under section 1 of the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 or a monument entered in the schedule maintained under section 3 of the Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2023; or\n(c) an area designated as a controlled site under section 1(2)(b) of the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 31 renumbered as art. 31(a) (31.5.2019) by The Marine Licensing (Exempted Activities) (Amendment) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/893), arts. 1(1), 13(a) (with art. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 31(b)(c) inserted (31.5.2019) by The Marine Licensing (Exempted Activities) (Amendment) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/893), arts. 1(1), 13(b) (with art. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 31(b) inserted (W.) (4.11.2024) by The Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2023 (Consequential Provision) (Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/924), regs. 1(2), 54"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1973 c. 33. Section 1 has been repealed in relation to Scotland, as from a date to be appointed, by paragraph 4 of Schedule 4 to the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 5)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/409/article/31",
    "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."
}