{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-licensing-exempted-activities-order-northern-ireland-2011/article-17B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-licensing-exempted-activities-order-northern-ireland-2011/article-17B.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2011/78",
  "legislation_title": "The Marine Licensing (Exempted Activities) Order (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-licensing-exempted-activities-order-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "article/17B",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17B",
  "heading": "Accidental deposits – removal activity",
  "text": "(1) Article 4 applies to a removal activity carried on for the purpose of removing any object which has been accidently deposited on the seabed.\n(2) Paragraph (1) is subject to conditions 1 and 2.\n(3) Condition 1 is that notice of the intention to carry on the removal activity must be given to the licensing authority before the removal activity is carried on.\n(4) Condition 2 is that the removal activity must be commenced within a period of 12 months beginning with the day on which the object was accidently deposited on the seabed.\n(5) But Article 4 does not apply–\n(a) to any such removal activity that causes, or is likely to cause, obstruction or danger to navigation; or\n(b) to any such removal activity–\n(i) that falls within sub-paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of paragraph (6); and\n(ii) that is not directly connected with or necessary to the management of the site or zone (as the case may be) referred to in that sub-paragraph.\n(6) A removal activity falls within this paragraph if–\n(a) it is a plan or project likely (either alone or in combination with other plans or projects) to have a significant effect on a European site;\n(b) it is likely to have a significant effect on a Ramsar site; or\n(c) it is capable of effecting (other than insignificantly)–\n(i) the protected features of an MCZ; or\n(ii) any ecological or geomorphological process on which conservation of any protected feature of an MCZ is (wholly or in part) dependent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Arts. 17A, 17B inserted (1.4.2022) by The Marine Licensing (Exempted Activities) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/68), arts. 1, 8"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2011/78/article/17B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:22:51.932407+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."
}