{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maryport-harbour-revision-order-2007/article-76",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maryport-harbour-revision-order-2007/article-76.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/3463",
  "legislation_title": "The Maryport Harbour Revision Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maryport-harbour-revision-order-2007",
  "path": "article/76",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "76",
  "heading": "Removal of vehicles, etc.",
  "text": "(1) If a vehicle or vessel is left without the permission of the Authority—\n(a) in any place where it is likely to obstruct or interfere with the use of the harbour; or\n(b) in any part of the harbour where the parking of vehicles or vessels is prohibited by notice erected by the Authority,\nthe Authority may remove the vehicle or vessel or cause it to be removed.\n(2) Any notice erected under paragraph (1)(b) shall be conspicuously posted in or close to the place to which it relates.\n(3) Where, under paragraph (1), the Authority remove a vehicle or vessel or cause it to be removed they shall as soon as practicable inform the police.\n(4) The expense of and incidental to the removal of a vehicle or vessel under this article shall be recoverable by the Authority from any person responsible as a debt in any court of competent jurisdiction.\n(5) For the purposes of paragraph (3), “person responsible” has the same meaning as in section 102(8) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.\n(6) If, under paragraph (1), the Authority remove a vehicle to a place not readily visible from the place whence it is so removed, they shall, if and as soon as it is reasonably practicable to do so, send to the person by whom the vehicle is kept notice that they have exercised the powers of this article and of the place to which the vehicle has been removed.\n(7) A notice stating the general effect of paragraph (1) shall be displayed in a prominent position at each place where a road accessible to vehicles enters any part of the harbour.\n(8) In determining, for the purposes of this article, who was the person by whom the vehicle was kept at any time, it shall be presumed that person was the person in whose name the vehicle was registered under the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c. 27."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1994 c. 22."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/3463/article/76",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:39:52.948462+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."
}