{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1995/section-201",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1995/section-201.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/21",
  "legislation_title": "Merchant Shipping Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1995",
  "path": "section/201",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "201",
  "heading": "Powers of harbour authorities.",
  "text": "(1) Every statutory harbour authority shall have power to carry out harbour operations to which subsection (2) below applies either within the authority’s area or on harbour land.\n(2) This subsection applies to harbour operations consisting of the marking or lighting of a harbour or any part of a harbour.\n(3) In this section “harbour land” and “harbour operations” have the same meanings as in the Harbours Act 1964 or, as respects Northern Ireland, as in the Harbours Act (Northern Ireland) 1970.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 201(1) substituted (17.7.1997) by 1997 c. 28, s. 29(1), Sch. 6 para. 8; S.I. 1997/1539, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1964 c. 40."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1970 c. 1 (N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 201 incorporated (S.) (4.10.2025) by Cromarty Firth Port Authority Order Confirmation Act 1973 (c. xvi), s. 4(2) (as amended by The Cromarty Firth Port Authority Harbour Revision Order 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/279), arts. 1(1), 3(3)(c))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/21/section/201",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:07.847944+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."
}