{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poole-harbour-revision-order-1999/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poole-harbour-revision-order-1999/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/403",
  "legislation_title": "The Poole Harbour Revision Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poole-harbour-revision-order-1999",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Power to dredge",
  "text": "(1) The Commissioners may from time to time deepen, dredge, scour, cleanse and improve the harbour for the purpose of the accommodation of vessels at the works, for affording access thereto or for the purpose of constructing or maintaining the works.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3) below, all materials dredged up or removed by the Commissioners in exercise of the powers of this article (other than wrecks within the meaning of Part IX of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995) shall be the property of the Commissioners and may be used, sold, deposited or otherwise disposed of as the Commissioners think fit.\n(3) No such materials shall be laid down or deposited in any place below the level of high water otherwise than in such position and under such conditions and restrictions as may be approved or prescribed by the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 21."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/724",
      "affecting_title": "The Poole Harbour Revision Order 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/403/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:00:59.497281+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."
}