{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1995/section-204",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1995/section-204.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/21",
  "legislation_title": "Merchant Shipping Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1995",
  "path": "section/204",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "204",
  "heading": "Surrender of local lighthouses.",
  "text": "(1) A local lighthouse authority may, if they think fit, surrender or sell any lighthouse, buoy or beacon held by them to the general lighthouse authority within whose area it is situated, and that general lighthouse may, with the consent of the Secretary of State, accept or purchase it.\n(2) The Secretary of State shall not give his consent for the purposes of subsection (1) above in any case where the local lighthouse authority concerned are a statutory harbour authority unless he considers that the maintenance of the lighthouse, buoy or beacon in question is in the interests of general navigation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 204(2) substituted (17.7.1997) by 1997 c. 28, s. 29(1), Sch. 6 para. 11; S.I. 1997/1539, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 204 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/204",
    "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."
}