{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/peterhead-port-authority-harbour-revision-order-2026/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/peterhead-port-authority-harbour-revision-order-2026/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2026/179",
  "legislation_title": "The Peterhead Port Authority Harbour Revision Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/peterhead-port-authority-harbour-revision-order-2026",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Limits of port",
  "text": "(1) The limits of the port within which the Authority exercise jurisdiction as the harbour authority within the meaning of section 57 of the 1964 Act and within which the powers of the harbour master are exercisable, are—\n(a) the seaward limits, being the area of Peterhead Bay and Peterhead Harbour shown delineated in red on the harbour limits plan, and\n(b) the port land, being the area (together with existing or future works) shown shaded pink on the harbour limits plan.\n(2) The port land referred to in paragraph (1)(b) shall be deemed to be operational land within the meaning and for the purposes of the 1992 Order and the 1997 Act.\n(3) The limits within which the provisions of the Peterhead Port Authority Orders 1983 to 2015 and this Order and any other prior Orders are to apply shall comprise the limits of the port defined in paragraph (1), and accordingly any reference to the port or Harbour or harbour or harbours or harbour limits contained in those Orders or in any byelaws, order, regulations or directions made under them shall be construed as a reference to those limits.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1997 c. 8. “Operational land” is defined in section 215 of the 1997 Act. There are amendments to section 215 which are not relevant to this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2026/179/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:30:05.900450+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."
}