{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-licensing-exempted-activities-order-northern-ireland-2011/article-24A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-licensing-exempted-activities-order-northern-ireland-2011/article-24A.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/24A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "24A",
  "heading": "Use of vehicles or vessels to remove marine litter and debris",
  "text": "(1) Article 4 applies to a removal activity using a vehicle or vessel carried on by or on behalf of a Harbour Authority for the purpose of removing marine litter and debris from the area within its jurisdiction.\n(2) But Article 4 does not apply to any such removal activity–\n(a) that is likely to cause damage to features of archaeological or historic interest in the area where the activities in question occur; or\n(b) that–\n(i) falls within paragraph (3); and\n(ii) is not directly connected with or necessary for the management of a site or zone (as the case may be) referred to in that paragraph.\n(3) An 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 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 affecting (other than insignificantly)–\n(i) the protected features of an MCZ;\n(ii) any ecological or geomorphological process on which the 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": "Art. 24A inserted (1.4.2022) by The Marine Licensing (Exempted Activities) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/68), arts. 1, 13"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2011/78/article/24A",
    "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."
}