{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-licensing-exempted-activities-order-northern-ireland-2011/article-24",
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  "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/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;\n(b) a harbour authority;\n(c) a lighthouse authority; or\n(d) a navigation authority.\n(3) In paragraph (2)—\n“conservancy authority” has the meaning given by section 313(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995; and\n“navigation authority” means any person having powers under any enactment or statutory provision to work or maintain a canal or other inland navigation, including a navigation in tidal water.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 24 in operation at 6.4.2011, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 21. The definition of ‘harbour authority’ was substituted by the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c. 28), section 29(1) and Schedule 6, paragraph 19(2)(a)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2011/78/article/24",
    "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."
}